Diversity and distribution of macroinvertebrates in lentic habitats in massively altered landscapes in south-eastern Australia

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 713-724

  Lake, P Sam ^a   Thomson, James R ^a   Lada, Hania ^a   Mac Nally, Ralph ^a   Reid, David ^a   Stanaway, Jarom ^a   Taylor, Andrea C ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

diversity; diversity; Dry woodlands; Farm dams; Functional feeding groups; Land use impacts

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; HABITAT QUALITY; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LENTIC ENVIRONMENT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STAND STRUCTURE; VEGETATION COVER; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALIA; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 77955764212     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00685.x     Document Type: Article

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