Determining vulnerability of stream communities to climate change at the landscape scale

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1689-1701

  Bush, A ^a   Nipperess, D ^a   Turak, E ^b,c   Hughes, L ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assemblage turnover; Conservation; Dispersal barrier; Macroinvertebrate; Variation partitioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863567304     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2012.02835.x     Document Type: Article

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