The roles of dispersal limitation and environmental conditions in controlling caddisfly (Trichoptera) assemblages

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1554-1564

  Landeiro, Victor Lemes ^a,b   Bini, Luis Mauricio ^b   Melo, Adriano Sanches ^b   Pes, Ana Maria Oliveira ^a   Magnusson, William Ernest ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Metacommunities; Neotropical streams; Redundancy analysis; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 84863596959     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2012.02816.x     Document Type: Article

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