Variation in invertebrate and fish communities across floodplain ecotones of the Altamaha and Savannah Rivers

Wetlands

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1117-1128

  Bright, Eric G ^a,b   Batzer, Darold P ^a   Garnett, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Community structure; Connectivity; Ecotonal interaction; Hydrology; Macroinvertebrates

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054069819     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: 19436246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-010-0116-9     Document Type: Article

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