Species abundance distribution of benthic chironomids and other macroinvertebrates across different levels of pollution in streams

Annales de Limnologie

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 53-66

  Tang, Hongqu ^a   Song, Mi Young ^b   Cho, Woon Seok ^a   Park, Young Seuk ^c   Chon, Tae Soo ^a  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^b National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (NFRDI)   (South Korea)

^c Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Chironomid; Dominance decay; Log normal distribution; Macroinvertebrates; Power law analysis; Random assortment; Random fraction; Species abundance distribution

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHOS; GEOMETRY; INSECT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTION EFFECT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POWER LAW; STREAM;

SOUTH KOREA;

CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 77950405080     PISSN: 00034088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/limn/2009031     Document Type: Article

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