Optimizing stream bioassessment: Habitat, season, and the impacts of land use on benthic macroinvertebrates

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 704, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 363-373

  Carlson, Peter E ^a   Johnson, Richard K ^a   McKie, Brendan G ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Boreal; Diversity metrics; Lotic; Species turnover; Traits

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANNELID; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; CATCHMENT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISTURBANCE; FLY; HABITAT TYPE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; OPTIMIZATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STREAM; TAXONOMY;

CHIRONOMIDAE; HEXAPODA; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA); PISIDIUM;

EID: 84873749198     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-012-1251-5     Document Type: Article

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