Floodplain biodiversity: Why are there so many species?

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 387-388, Issue , 1998, Pages 39-46

  Shiel, Russell J ^a   Green, John D ^b   Nielsen, Daryl L ^a  

^a EWATER COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Copepoda; Ephemeral waters; Floodplain; Food webs; Habitat partitioning; Opportunism; Predation; Rotifera; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FLOODPLAIN; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY RIVER; NEW SOUTH WALES;

ROTIFERA;

EID: 6544290383     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-4782-8_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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