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Stream biodiversity: the ghost of land use past.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 8 Dec 1998
Harding J S, Benfield E F, Bolstad P V, Helfman G S, Jones E B
Abstract excerpt
The influence of past land use on the present-day diversity of stream invertebrates and fish was investigated by comparing watersheds with different land-use history. Whole watershed land use in the 1950s was the best predictor of present-day diversity, whereas riparian land use and watershed land use in the 1990s were comparatively poor indicators. Our findings indicate that past land-use activity, particularly...
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