The role of niche measures in explaining the abundance-distribution relationship in tropical lotic chironomids

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 636, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 163-172

  Siqueira, Tadeu ^a,b   Bini, Luis Mauricio ^b   Cianciaruso, Marcus Vinicius ^b   Roque, Fabio Oliveira ^c   Trivinho Strixino, Susana ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA GRANDE DOURADOS   (Brazil)

^d Departamento de Hidrobiologia Laboratorio de Entomologia Aquatica ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Abundance occupancy relationship; Aquatic insects; OMI analysis; Rarity; Tropical streams

Indexed keywords

CHIRONOMIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84880019730     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-009-9945-z     Document Type: Article

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