Developing linkages between species traits and multiscaled environmental variation to explore vulnerability of stream benthic communities to climate change

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1441-1458

  LeRoy Poff, N ^a   Pyne, Matthew I ^a   Bledsoe, Brian P ^b   Cuhaciyan, Christopher C ^c   Carlisle, Daren M ^d  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benthic community; Climate change; Species traits; Species vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859126492     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1899/10-030.1     Document Type: Article

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