Benthic fauna species diversity in six central Florida lakes in summer

✍ Scribed by John A. Osborne; Martin P. Wanielista; Yousef A. Yousef

• Book ID: 104618479
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1976
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 321 KB
• Volume: 48
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1573-5141
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00040164

✦ Synopsis

The summer macroinvertebrate fauna was studied in six central Florida monomictic lakes during July, 1973 . No direct relationships were found between physiochemical conditions and species diversity . Of the 22 species of benthic organisms recorded, only four species were found in all the lakes . Mean species diversity (d) values for the lakes ranged from 0 .735 to 1 .731 .