Relevance of abiotic criteria used in German lake typology for macroinvertebrate fauna

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 636, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 379-392

  Zenker, Armin ^a   Baier, Beate ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS NORTHWESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c Dr Brill Partner GmbH Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bottom up typology; Ecological lake classification; Invertebrate composition; Metrics; Multivariate analysis

Indexed keywords

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EID: 84940047078     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-009-9967-6     Document Type: Article

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