Responses of plants and invertebrate assemblages to water-level fluctuation in headwater wetlands

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 981-996

  Drinkard, Maureen K ^a   Kershner, Mark W ^a   Romito, Angela ^b   Nieset, Julie ^c   De Szalay, Ferenc A ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

aquatic invertebrates; Flood Pulse Concept; functional categories; hydrology; intermittently flooded zone; obligate wetland plants; riparian wetlands

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLOODPLAIN; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HEADWATER; INVERTEBRATE; MESOCOSM; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; RIVER SYSTEM; STOCHASTICITY; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; WATER LEVEL; WETLAND;

BIDENS; CAREX CRINITA; CAREX LUPULINA; CAREX VULPINOIDEA; CIRSIUM; CIRSIUM ARVENSE; DAUCUS CAROTA; DULICHIUM ARUNDINACEUM; ELEOCHARIS; ELEOCHARIS OBTUSA; EUPATORIADELPHUS MACULATUS; INVERTEBRATA; JUNCUS CANADENSIS; LUDWIGIA PALUSTRIS; MELILOTUS OFFICINALIS; MENTHA; MENTHA ARVENSIS; PLANTAGO; PLANTAGO LANCEOLATA; POA; POA PALUSTRIS;

EID: 80054830294     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1899/10-099.1     Document Type: Article

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