Untangling associations between chironomid taxa in Neotropical streams using local and landscape filters

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 847-865

  Roque, Fabio O ^a   Siqueira, Tadeu ^b,c   Bini, LUIS M ^c   Ribeiro, Milton C ^d,e   Tambosi, Leandro R ^d   Ciocheti, Giordano ^d   Trivinho Strixino, Susana ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA GRANDE DOURADOS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aquatic insects; Atlantic Forest; Landscape ecology; Model selection; Spatial eigenvectors

Indexed keywords

ABLABESMYIA; ARTHROPODA; CHIRONOMIDAE; HEXAPODA; NANOCLADIUS; PARAMETRIOCNEMUS; PENTANEURA; POLYPEDILUM; RHEOTANYTARSUS;

EID: 77951131276     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02314.x     Document Type: Article

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