Implications of community concordance for assessing stream integrity at three nested spatial scales in Minnesota, U.S.A.

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1652-1669

  Dolph, Christine L ^a   Huff, David D ^b   Chizinski, Christopher J ^c   Vondracek, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Canonical correspondence analysis; Fish; Macroinvertebrates; Procrustes; RIVPACS

Indexed keywords

INVERTEBRATA; MARTES PENNANTI;

EID: 79960004965     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2011.02589.x     Document Type: Article

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