The use of dragonflies in the assessment and monitoring of aquatic habitats

Dragonflies and Damselflies: Model Organisms for Ecological and Evolutionary Research

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Oertli, Beat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bioassessment; Biodiversity; Biomonitoring; Climate warming; Ecosystem health; Habitat management; Habitat restoration; Sampling methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919690420     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199230693.003.0007     Document Type: Chapter

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