Invasive reed effects on benthic community structure in Lake Erie coastal marshes

Wetlands Ecology and Management

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 219-231

  Holomuzki, Joseph R ^a   Klarer, David M ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Diatom dominated epiphyton; Macroinvertebrate diversity and density; Microalgal food supply; Phragmites australis; Reed cover and invasion history; Typha

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHOS; CANOPY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIATOM; DOMINANCE; EPIPHYTE; INVASIVE SPECIES; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MARSH; MICROALGA; REEDBED; SHORELINE; SNAIL; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ERIE;

ALGAE; ALISMATACEAE; AMPHIPODA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; EPHEMEROPTERA; EPIPHYTON; GASTROPODA; HYALELLA AZTECA; LEMNA; ODONATA; PHRAGMITES; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; SAGITTARIA; SPARGANIUM; TRICHOPTERA; TYPHA; TYPHA ANGUSTIFOLIA;

EID: 77952293051     PISSN: 09234861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11273-009-9161-7     Document Type: Article

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