Relations between environmental gradients and diversity indices of benthic invertebrates in lotic systems of northern Italy
The relations between environmental gradients, as measured by 19 independent variables, and traditional diversity indices (taxonomic richness, diversity and evenness) of benthic macroinvertebrate communities in the lotic systems of northern Italy were analyzed. Redundancy analysis (RDA) was used to...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2016-02-01
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Series: | Web Ecology |
Online Access: | http://www.web-ecol.net/16/13/2016/we-16-13-2016.pdf |