Relationships between invertebrate communities and both hydrological regime and other environmental factors across New Zealand's rivers

Ecohydrology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 13-32

  Booker, D J ^a   Snelder, T H ^b   Greenwood, M J ^a   Crow, S K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b AQUALINC RESEARCH LTD   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Environmental flows; Hydrological regime; Invertebrate community; Random forests; Variance partitioning

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITIES; RANDOM FORESTS; VARIANCE PARTITIONING;

DECISION TREES;

COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; INVERTEBRATE;

NEW ZEALAND;

EPHEMEROPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; PLECOPTERA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 84901057592     PISSN: 19360584     EISSN: 19360592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eco.1481     Document Type: Article

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