Environmental drivers, life strategies and bioindicator capacity of bryophyte communities in high-latitude headwater streams

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 679, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-17

  Lang, P ^a,b   Murphy, K J ^b  

^a SCOTTISH ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioindicators; Environmental drivers; Stream bryophytes; Water quality

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOINDICATOR; BIOMONITORING; BRYOPHYTE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CURRENT VELOCITY; DATA SET; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HEADWATER; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; STREAMWATER; SUBSTRATE; TWINSPAN; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CHILOSCYPHUS; HYGROHYPNUM LURIDUM; HYGROHYPNUM OCHRACEUM; SCAPANIA UNDULATA;

EID: 82255179535     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0838-6     Document Type: Article

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