Land-use influences on New Zealand stream communities: Effects on species composition, functional organisation, and food-web structure

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 595-608

  Thompson, R M ^a,b   Townsend, C R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b Biodiversity Research Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Food web structure; Land use; Productivity; Stream

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FOOD WEB; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; LAND USE; STREAM;

AUSTRALASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NEW ZEALAND; WORLD;

ALGAE; INVERTEBRATA; RIPARIA;

EID: 7944225538     PISSN: 00288330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288330.2004.9517265     Document Type: Article

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