Do isolation and local habitat jointly limit the structure of stream invertebrate assemblages?

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 128-141

  Campbell, Rebecca E ^a   Mcintosh, Angus R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Habitat size; Isolation; Local processes; Regional processes; Stream network

Indexed keywords

INVERTEBRATA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 84870984142     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12045     Document Type: Article

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