The relative influence of catchment and site variables on fish and macroinvertebrate richness in cerrado biome streams

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1001-1016

  Macedo, Diego R ^a,b   Hughes, Robert M ^a,c   Ligeiro, Raphael ^a   Ferreira, Wander R ^a   Castro, Miriam A ^d   Junqueira, Nara T ^d   Oliveira, Deborah R ^a   Firmiano, Kele R ^a   Kaufmann, Philip R ^e   Pompeu, Paulo S ^d   Callisto, Marcos ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO BRASILEIRO DE GEOGRAFIA E ESTATÍSTICA   (Brazil)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF LAVRAS   (Brazil)

^e U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic pressures; Biological diversity; Brazil; Landscape ecology; Multiple linear regression models; Partition of variance; Physical habitat structure; Savanna; Streams

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ASSEMBLY RULE; CATCHMENT; CERRADO; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FISH; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; SAVANNA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

BRAZIL;

EID: 84903205041     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-014-0036-9     Document Type: Article

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