Borders of biodiversity: Life at the edge of the world's large lakes

BioScience

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 526-537

  Vadeboncoeur, Yvonne ^a   McIntyre, Peter B ^b   Zanden, M Jake Vander ^b  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

fish; great lakes; invertebrates; littoral zone; species area curves

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; PISCES;

EID: 79960178668     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2011.61.7.7     Document Type: Article

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