Mayfly (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) community structure as an indicator of the ecological status of a stream in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 166, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 581-594

  Arimoro, Francis Ofurum ^a,b   Muller, Wilhelmine J ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Baetis; Diversity; Ephemeroptera; Niger Delta; River Orogodo; Spatiotemporal variations

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; BIOASSESSMENT; BOTTOM SEDIMENTS; CANOPY COVER; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; DISCHARGE SITES; ECOLOGICAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; FRESHWATER BODIES; MAYFLY NYMPHS; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; NIGER DELTA; NIGERIA; POLLUTION IMPACT; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SHANNON DIVERSITY; SPACE AND TIME; SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATION; SUBSTRATE HETEROGENEITY; WATER VELOCITIES;

CATCHMENTS; DECISION MAKING; DISSOLUTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; EFFLUENTS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; SUBSTRATES;

RIVERS;

OXYGEN;

BIOINDICATOR; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; INSECT; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAMWATER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER QUALITY;

AFROBAETODES PUSILLUS; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; BAETIS; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CAENIS CIBARIA; CANOPY; CHEMICAL, PHYSICAL AND MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; COMMUNITY SUCCESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; EPHEMEROPTERA; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INSECT; MAYFLY; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; SEDIMENT; SPATIAL SUMMATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STREAM (RIVER); VELOCITY; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INSECTS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NIGERIA; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

DELTA; NIGER DELTA; NIGERIA; OROGODO RIVER;

AFROBAETODES PUSILLUS; BAETIS; CAENIS; EPHEMEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 77954143744     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-009-1025-3     Document Type: Article

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