Estimating the effects of excess nutrients on stream invertebrates from observational data

Ecological Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 110-125

  Yuan, Lester L ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confounding variables; Macroinvertebrate; Nitrogen; Nutrients; Phosphorus; Propensity scores; Streams; Total taxon richness

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; WATER;

AQUATIC ORGANISM; DATA INTERPRETATION; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PERIPHYTON; PHOSPHORUS; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; INVERTEBRATE; METABOLISM; RIVER; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; INVERTEBRATES; NITROGEN; RIVERS; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

UNITED STATES;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 77649175497     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1750.1     Document Type: Article

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