Taxonomic or ecological approaches? Searching for phytoplankton surrogates in the determination of richness and assemblage composition in ponds

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 18, Issue , 2012, Pages 575-585

  Gallego, I ^a,b,c   Davidson, T A ^b   Jeppesen, E ^b,d,e   Perez Martinez C ^c   Sanchez Castillo P ^c   Juan, M ^a   Fuentes Rodriguez F ^a   Leon D ^f   Penalver P ^f   Toja, J ^f   Casas, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^d GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^e Sino Danish Centre for Education and Research (SDC)   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biodiversity surrogates; Functional groups; Higher taxa; Morphology; Phytoplankton; Ponds; Size classes

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLAGE COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; ECOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HIGHER TAXA; PHYTOPLANKTON DIVERSITIES; PONDS; SIMPLE METHOD; SIZE CLASS; BIODIVERSITY SURROGATES; HIGHER TAXON;

BIODIVERSITY; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; LAKES; MORPHOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SOCIAL SCIENCES; PONDING;

ECOLOGY;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; MORPHOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; POND; SIZE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; IDENTIFICATION KEY; POND CULTURE; POPULATION SIZE;

ANDALUCIA; SPAIN;

EID: 84856982209     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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