Anthropogenic disturbance and landscape patterns affect diversity patterns of aquatic benthic macroinvertebrates

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 284-295

  Maloney, Kelly O ^a,d   Munguia, Pablo ^b   Mitchell, Richard M ^c  

^a SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

alpha diversity; Beta diversity; ecoregion; multivariate dispersion; nonmetric multidimensional scaling; scale

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ECOREGION; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952268110     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1899/09-112.1     Document Type: Article

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