Do productivity and disturbance interact to modulate macroinvertebrate diversity in streams?

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 701, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 159-172

  Tonkin, Jonathan D ^a,d   Death, Russell G ^a   Collier, Kevin J ^b,c  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^c WAIKATO REGIONAL COUNCIL   (New Zealand)

^d TOI OHOMAI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Canopy cover; Dynamic equilibrium model; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Richness; Trade off

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DIVERSITY INDEX; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAMWATER; TRADE-OFF;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND;

ALGAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84870773458     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-012-1248-0     Document Type: Article

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