Hydrology drives seasonal variation in dryland stream macroinvertebrate communities

Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 705-717

  Giam, Xingli ^a,e   Chen, William ^a   Schriever, Tiffany A ^b   Van Driesche, Richard ^c   Muneepeerakul, Rachata ^d   Lytle, David A ^c   Olden, Julian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Ecological filtering; Habitat templet; Intermittent flow; Life history; Traits based ecology

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LOTIC ENVIRONMENT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MICROHABITAT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 85017017717     PISSN: 10151621     EISSN: 14209055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00027-017-0530-7     Document Type: Article

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