The seemingly intractable ecological responses of invertebrates in North American Wetlands: A review

Wetlands

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-15

  Batzer, Darold P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioassessment; Chaos; Hydrology; Plant invertebrate interaction; Predation

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOASSAY; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; INVERTEBRATE; LITERATURE REVIEW; WETLAND;

NORTH AMERICA;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84873726812     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: 19436246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-012-0360-2     Document Type: Review

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