The relative role of environmental, spatial, and land-use patterns in explaining aquatic macrophyte community composition

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1778-1789

  Mikulyuk, Alison ^a   Sharma, Sapna ^b   van Egeren, Scott ^a   Erdmann, Eric ^a   Nault, Michelle E ^a   Hauxwell, Jennifer ^a  

^a WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ALKALINITY; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; AQUATIC PLANT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; MACROPHYTE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN; WISCONSIN LAKE;

EID: 80053975916     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: 12057533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f2011-095     Document Type: Article

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