Trade-offs in plankton species richness arising from drought: Insights from long-term data of a National Park wetland (central Spain)

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2453-2476

  Rojo, Carmen ^a   Álvarez Cobelas, Miguel ^b   Benavent Corai, J ^a   Barón Rodríguez, María Mercedes ^a   Rodrigo, María A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Connectivity; Microbial diversity; Salinisation; Species turnover; Trait selection

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; BODY SIZE; CONNECTIVITY; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EUTROPHICATION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; MACROPHYTE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHYTOPLANKTON; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SALINIZATION; SEMIARID REGION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRADE-OFF; WETLAND MANAGEMENT; ZOOPLANKTON;

CASTILLA-LA MANCHA; CIUDAD REAL [CASTILLA-LA MANCHA]; SPAIN; TABLAS DE DAIMIEL NATIONAL PARK;

ALGAE;

EID: 84865405331     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-012-0307-1     Document Type: Article

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