Community concordance between bryophyte and insect assemblages in boreal springs: A broad-scale study in isolated habitats

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1651-1662

  Virtanen, Risto ^a   Ilmonen, Jari ^b   Paasivirta, Lauri ^c   Muotka, Timo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c NONE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Congruence; Environmental drivers; Head waters; Spring communities; Surrogate taxon

Indexed keywords

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CHIRONOMIDAE; COLEOPTERA; DIPTERA; EPHEMEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; MARCHANTIOPHYTA; PLECOPTERA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 67650330311     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02212.x     Document Type: Article

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