Biological traits of European pond macroinvertebrates

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 689, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 51-61

  Céréghino, Régis ^a   Oertli, Beat ^b   Bazzanti, Marcello ^c   Coccia, Cristina ^c,d   Compin, Arthur ^a   Biggs, Jeremy ^e   Bressi, Nicolas ^f   Grillas, Patrick ^g   Hull, Andrew ^h   Kalettka, Thomas ⁱ   Scher, Olivier ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d CISC ^*  (France)

^e Pond Conservation: The Water Habitats Trust   (United Kingdom)

^f Trieste Natural History Museum   (Italy)

^g STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE LA TOUR DU VALAT   (France)

^h LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biogeographic regions; Community functions; Database; Freshwater biodiversity; Fuzzy coding

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION; CLIMATIC REGION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATA SET; DATABASE; DISPERSAL; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HYDROBIOLOGY; MACROINVERTEBRATE; POND; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RIVER WATER; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EUROPE;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84860580877     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0744-y     Document Type: Article

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