Trends in Diporeia populations across the Laurentian Great Lakes, 1997-2009

Journal of Great Lakes Research

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 9-17

  Barbiero, Richard P ^a   Schmude, Kurt ^b   Lesht, Barry M ^c   Riseng, Catherine M ^d   Warren, Glenn J ^e   Tuchman, Marc L ^e  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SUPERIOR   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e US EPA Great Lakes National Program Office   (United States)

Author keywords

Benthos; Diporeia

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC COMMUNITIES; BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES; BENTHOS; DIPOREIA; GREAT LAKES; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LAKE ERIE; LAKE MICHIGAN; LAKE ONTARIO; LAKE SUPERIOR; LAURENTIAN GREAT LAKES; MACROINVERTEBRATE MONITORING; MICHIGAN; ONTARIO; POPULATION DENSITIES; POPULATION SIZES;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

LAKES;

AMPHIPOD; ANNUAL VARIATION; BENTHOS; BIVALVE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MACROINVERTEBRATE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; SYNCHRONY;

CANADA; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAURENTIAN MOUNTAINS; QUEBEC [CANADA];

DIPOREIA; DREISSENIDAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 79951578385     PISSN: 03801330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jglr.2010.11.009     Document Type: Article

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