Community patterns of the small riverine benthos within and between two contrasting glacier catchments

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2832-2844

  Eisendle Flöckner, Ursula ^a   Jersabek, Christian D ^a   Kirchmair, Martin ^b   Hashold, Kerstin ^b   Traunspurger, Walter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Algae; Bacteria; Copepods; Fungi; Glacier retreat; Glacier river; Local patterns; Meiofauna; Nanoflagellates; Nematodes; Regional diversity; Rotifers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887012668     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.679     Document Type: Article

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