Invertebrate community responses to land use at a broad spatial scale: Trait and taxonomic measures compared in New Zealand rivers

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1670-1688

  Dolédec, Sylvain ^a   Phillips, Ngaire ^b   Townsend, Colin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Benthos; Biogeography; Biological traits; Land use; Scale

Indexed keywords

EPHEMEROPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; PLECOPTERA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 79959933098     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2011.02597.x     Document Type: Article

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