Influence of a forest remnant on macroinvertebrate communities in a degraded tropical stream

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 703, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 203-213

  Suga, Cristiane M ^a   Tanaka, Marcel O ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Degraded streams; Forest fragmentation; Land use change; Rural landscapes

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; BEETLE; CADDISFLY; CULTIVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LEAF LITTER; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MAYFLY; REFUGE; RIPARIAN FOREST; RURAL AREA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STONEFLY; STREAM; SUGAR CANE; TROPICAL REGION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

BRAZIL;

BAETIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; ELMIDAE; EPHEMEROPTERA; PLECOPTERA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 84871432811     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-012-1360-1     Document Type: Article

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