Land use, stream habitat and benthic invertebrate assemblages in a highly altered Iowa watershed

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 274-293

  Herringshaw, Cassie J ^a,b   Stewart, Timothy W ^a   Thompson, Janette R ^a   Anderson, Paul F ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Comite Central Menonita ^*  (Bolivia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BENTHOS; BIOTIC FACTOR; HABITAT TYPE; HEADWATER; INSECT; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; LAND COVER; LAND USE; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; STREAM; TAXONOMY; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN SITE; URBANIZATION; WATERSHED;

IOWA; UNITED STATES;

ANNELIDA; CHIRONOMIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA);

EID: 79953236655     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031-165.2.274     Document Type: Article

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