Community structure in temporary freshwater pools: Disentangling the effects of habitat size and hydroregime

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1487-1500

  Vanschoenwinkel, Bram ^a   Hulsmans, Ann ^a   De Roeck, Els ^a   De Vries, Chris ^b   Seaman, Maitland ^b   Brendonck, Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Ecohydrology; Hydrological modelling; Hydroregime; Temporary pools; Variation partitioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 66749152596     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02198.x     Document Type: Article

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