Under siege: Isolated tributaries are threatened by regionally impaired metacommunities

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 560-561, Issue , 2016, Pages 170-178

  Merriam, Eric R ^a   Petty, J Todd ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Headwater conservation; Local vs. regional effects; Mountaintop mining; Multiple spatial scales; Stream metacommunities

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY;

CONSERVATION PRIORITIES; HEAD WATERS; INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITIES; NEIGHBORHOOD CONDITIONS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL CONDITIONS; REGIONAL EFFECTS; SPATIAL SCALE; STREAM METACOMMUNITIES;

CONSERVATION;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HEADWATER; INVERTEBRATE; ISOLATION EFFECT; METAPOPULATION; MINING; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES POOL; STREAM; TRIBUTARY;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; CATCHMENT; CHIMARRA; CHIRONOMIDAE; COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; HEMERODROMIA; INVERTEBRATE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREAM (RIVER); STRESS; ANIMAL; AQUATIC SPECIES; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROCEDURES; RIVER; WEST VIRGINIA;

UNITED STATES; WEST VIRGINIA;

BAETIS; CHIMARRA; CHIRONOMIDAE; HEMERODROMIA; INVERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INVERTEBRATES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVERS; WEST VIRGINIA;

EID: 84964584556     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.04.053     Document Type: Article

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