The roles of elevation and local environmental factors as drivers of diatom diversity in subarctic streams

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1509-1521

  Teittinen, Anette ^a   Kallajoki, Liisa ^a   Meier, Sandra ^a   Stigzelius, Tiina ^a   Soininen, Janne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

altitude; beta diversity; macroecology; northern Fennoscandia; Rapoport's rule

Indexed keywords

EID: 84982833994     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12791     Document Type: Article

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