Sources of small-scale variation in the invertebrate communities of headwater streams

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1219-1233

  Lecraw, Robin ^a   Mackereth, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community structure; Functional group; Redundancy analysis; Spatial scale; Topography

Indexed keywords

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 77953925100     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02347.x     Document Type: Article

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