The macroinvertebrate colonization of leaf bags: Is there a pattern?

Limnetica

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 71-75

  Cortes, R M V ^a   Abelho, M ^b   Rebelo, S B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Colonization; Functional feeding groups; Leaf litter; Stream macroinvertebrate communities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002864994     PISSN: 02138409     EISSN: 19891806     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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