Nestedness and successional trajectories of macroinvertebrate assemblages in man-made wetlands

Oecologia

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 545-556

  Ruhí, Albert ^a   Boix, Dani ^a   Gascón, Stéphanie ^a   Sala, Jordi ^a   Quintana, Xavier D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aquatic biodiversity; Created wetlands; Crustaceans; Insects; Succession

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; HABITAT LOSS; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MANMADE STRUCTURE; NESTEDNESS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION; TRAJECTORY;

CRUSTACEA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84872613627     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2440-7     Document Type: Article

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