Lake macroinvertebrates and the altitudinal environmental gradient in the Pyrenees

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 648, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-72

  de Mendoza, Guillermo ^a   Catalan, Jordi ^a  

^a CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Altitudinal environmental gradient; Littoral macroinvertebrates; Mountain lakes; Oligotrophic lakes; Variance partitioning

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; ECOLOGICAL FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; HIGH ALTITUDE; LIFE HISTORY; LITTORAL ZONE; MACROINVERTEBRATES; MACROPHYTES; MOUNTAIN LAKES; OLIGOTROPHIC LAKES; ORGANIC MATTER; PYRENEES; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; RELATED VARIABLES; SALMONIDS; SECOND-ORDER POLYNOMIAL; SIMPLE LINEAR REGRESSION;

LANDFORMS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

LAKES;

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LIFE HISTORY; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MACROPHYTE; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIC MATTER; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

PYRENEES;

SALMONIDAE;

EID: 77952009328     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0261-4     Document Type: Article

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