Substrate and shade: Mechanisms of willow tree influence on the macroinvertebrate community of Heeney Creek, South Island, New Zealand

Archiv fur Hydrobiologie

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 145-158

  Lester, Philip J ^a   Mitchell, Stuart F ^b   Scott, Donald ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

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