Dams and downstream aquatic biodiversity: Potential food web consequences of hydrologic and geomorphic change

Environmental Management

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 887-895

  Power, Mary E ^a   Dietrich, William E ^a   Finlay, Jacques C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dams; Food webs; Hydrologic disturbance; Predator prey dynamics; Succession

Indexed keywords

FLOODPLAIN INUNDATION; FOOD WEBS; RIVER BIOTA;

CONSERVATION; DAMS; DEWATERING; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FLOW OF WATER; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; RIVERS; SCOUR;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

AQUATIC FAUNA; AQUATIC FLORA; BIODIVERSITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FOOD CHAIN; GEOLOGY; RIVER; SOCIOECONOMICS; VEGETATION; WATER FLOW;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS;

EID: 0030298009     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01205969     Document Type: Conference Paper

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