Impact of long-term alternations of discharge and spate on the chironomid community in the lowland Widawka River (Central Poland)

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 324, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 107-115

  Grzybkowska, Maria ^a   Temech, Alina ^a   Dukowska, Malgorzata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

Chironomidae; rivers; secondary production

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; RIVER DISCHARGE; SPATE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

POLAND, WIDAWKA RIVER;

CHIRONOMIDAE; DIPTERA;

EID: 0029660242     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00018171     Document Type: Article

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