Computation and application of nematode community indices: General guidelines

Freshwater Nematodes: Ecology and Taxonomy

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 211-222

  Neher, Deborah A ^a   Darby, Brian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

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