Interacting environmental gradients, trade-offs and reversals in the abundance-environment relationships of stream insects: When flow is unimportant

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 259-270

  Lancaster, Jill ^a   Downes, Barbara J ^b   Glaister, Alena ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Caenidae; Dissolved oxygen; Ecnomidae; Quantile regression.

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CADDISFLY; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DETRITUS; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FLOW VELOCITY; LIMITING FACTOR; MAYFLY; POPULATION DENSITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STREAMFLOW; TRADE-OFF; DIET; FOOD AVAILABILITY; INSECT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; STREAMWATER;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

CAENIDAE; ECNOMIDAE; EPHEMEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 63849198411     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF08226     Document Type: Article

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