The influence of habitat integrity and physical-chemical water variables on the structure of aquatic and semi-aquatic Heteroptera

This work aimed to assess the effect of certain physical-chemical variables and the Habitat Integrity Index (HII) have on an aquatic and semi-aquatic heteropteran community. We collected in five streams (from 1st to 4th order) that differed in habitat integrity, in order to test 1) whether heteropte...

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Main Authors: Karina Dias-Silva, Helena S. R. Cabette, Leandro Juen, Paulo De Marco Jr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2010-01-01
Series:Zoologia (Curitiba)
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-46702010000600013