Longitudinal changes in benthic community composition in four neotropical streams

Caribbean Journal of Science

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 380-394

  Turner, Dorothea ^a   Williams, D Dudley ^a   Alkins Koo, Mary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Environmental impact; Functional feeding groups; Land use; Macroinvertebrates; Streams; Trinidad

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EPHEMERAL STREAM; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; LAND USE; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LESSER ANTILLES; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; TRINIDAD [TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO];

PARIA;

EID: 67649427500     PISSN: 00086452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18475/cjos.v44i3.a13     Document Type: Article

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