Unravelling the joint effects of flow regime, climatic variability and dispersal mode on beta diversity of riverine communities

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1350-1364

  Rolls, Robert J ^a   Heino, Jani ^b   Chessman, Bruce C ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

community compositional variation; dispersal mode; fish; hydrologic regime; landscape; macroinvertebrates

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977501370     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12793     Document Type: Article

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