Richness of littoral macroinvertebrate communities in mountain ponds from NW Spain: What factors does it depend on?

Journal of Limnology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Martínez Sanz, Carlos ^a   Fernández Aláez, Camino ^a   García Criado, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Environmental variables; Littoral macroinvertebrates; Mountain ponds; Predictive model; Richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; HABITAT TYPE; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POND; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

SPAIN;

EID: 82555169489     PISSN: 11295767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3274/JL12-71-1-12     Document Type: Article

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