Community congruence of plants, invertebrates and birds in natural and constructed shallow open-water wetlands: Do we need to monitor multiple assemblages?

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 20, Issue , 2012, Pages 42-50

  Rooney, Rebecca C ^a   Bayley, Suzanne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aquatic macroinvertebrates; Aquatic macrophytes; Bioindicator; Concordance; Songbirds; Waterfowl

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC MACROINVERTEBRATES; AQUATIC MACROPHYTES; BIOINDICATOR; CONCORDANCE; SONGBIRDS; WATERFOWL;

BIRDS; FORESTRY; VEGETATION;

WETLANDS;

BIOINDICATOR; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INVERTEBRATE; MACROPHYTE; SHALLOW WATER; SONGBIRD; TAXONOMY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WATERFOWL;

ANATIDAE; AVES; INVERTEBRATA; PASSERI;

EID: 84857713659     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.11.029     Document Type: Article

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