The ecology of cold desert spring-streams

Archiv fur Hydrobiologie

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 499-522

  Gushing, Colbert E ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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