Relation between environmental variables and aquatic megafauna in a first order stream of the Atlantic Forest, southern Brazil

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 528, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 17-30

  Vilella, Fábio ^a   Becker, Fernando ^a   Hartz, Sandra ^a   Barbieri, Geraldo ^a  

^a Caixa Postal 15007 RS Brazil   (Brazil)

Author keywords

aquatic community; Atlantic Forest; stream ecology

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC MEGAFAUNA; LIMNOLOGICAL VARIABLES; MESOSCALE; TEMPORAL PATTERNS;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOFILTERS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FORESTRY; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; STREAM FLOW;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ABUNDANCE; AQUATIC COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES INVENTORY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AMPHIBIA; CRUSTACEA; PISCES;

EID: 7244247306     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-004-0688-6     Document Type: Article

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