Large-scale geographic patterns of diversity and community structure of pelagic crustacean zooplankton in Canadian lakes

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 784-795

  Pinel Alloul, Bernadette ^a,d   André, Adrien ^a,b   Legendre, Pierre ^a,d   Cardille, Jeffrey ^a,e   Patalas, Kasimierz ^c   Salki, Alex ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c FRESHWATER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d Centre de la Science de la Biodiversité du Québec Université du Québec a' Rimouski   (Canada)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Community structure; Continental scale; Diversity; Ecoprovinces; Lakes; Large scale patterns; Pelagic crustacean zooplankton

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRUSTACEAN; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; ZOOPLANKTON;

CANADA;

CRUSTACEA;

EID: 84879180478     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12041     Document Type: Article

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