Habitat filtering determines spatial variation of macroinvertebrate community traits in northern headwater streams

Community Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 77-88

  Schmera, D ^a,b   Eros, T ^b   Heino, J ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Diversity; Headwater streams; Natural environmental variation; Stream macroinvertebrates; Trait based analyses

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HEADWATER; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TAXONOMY;

EID: 84879844698     PISSN: 15858553     EISSN: 15882756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ComEc.14.2013.1.9     Document Type: Article

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