Are diatom diversity indices reliable monitoring metrics?

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 695, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 199-206

  Blanco, Saúl ^a,b   Cejudo Figueiras, Cristina ^a,b   Tudesque, Loïc ^c   Bécares, Eloy ^a   Hoffmann, Lucien ^b   Ector, Luc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^b LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

Bioassessment; Rank abundance; Shannon's index; Species accumulation; Species richness; Trophic level

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOACCUMULATION; DIATOM; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LIMNOLOGY; MONITORING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TROPHIC LEVEL;

FRANCE;

ACHNANTHIDIUM MINUTISSIMUM; BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 84865440921     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-012-1113-1     Document Type: Article

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