The Influence of Environmental, Biotic and Spatial Factors on Diatom Metacommunity Structure in Swedish Headwater Streams

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Göthe, Emma ^a   Angeler, David G ^a   Gottschalk, Steffi ^a   Löfgren, Stefan ^a   Sandin, Leonard ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY GRADIENT; DIATOM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GRAZING; HEADWATER STREAM; LOTIC ENVIRONMENT; MASS EXTINCTION; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREDICTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPOSITION; STREAM (RIVER); TAXONOMY; TROPHIC LEVEL;

BIODIVERSITY; DIATOMS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVERS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN;

EID: 84881594539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072237     Document Type: Article

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