Invertebrate community variation in seasonal forest wetlands: Implications for sampling and analyses

Wetlands

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 874-881

  Miller, Anthony T ^a,f   Hanson, Mark A ^a,b   Church, James O ^a,c   Palik, Brian ^d   Bowe, Shane E ^e,g   Butler, Malcolm G ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^e BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Third Rock Consultants   (United States)

^g Red Lake Dept of Natural Resources   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic invertebrates; Indicator species analysis; Principal components analysis; Seasonal forest wetlands; Temporal variability

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AQUATIC COMMUNITY; BIOINDICATOR; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CRUSTACEAN; DATA SET; DECIDUOUS FOREST; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; INSECT; LEECH; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WETLAND;

MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES;

CRUSTACEA; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HIRUDINIDA; INVERTEBRATA; POPULUS;

EID: 77749252621     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/07-58.1     Document Type: Article

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