Environmental patchiness and processing of maple leaf litter in a backwater of a mountain stream: Riffle area vs. debris dams

Archiv fur Hydrobiologie

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 489-508

  Casas, J J ^a,b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

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