Monitoring temporal changes in the biology of acid waters

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 179-201

  Lancaster, J ^a   Real, M ^b   Juggins, S ^c   Monteith, D T ^d   Flower, R J ^d   Beaumont, W R C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC MACROPHYTE; MACROBENTHOS;

UK;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; INVERTEBRATA; SALMO TRUTTA; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 0030304333     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1996.00078.x     Document Type: Review

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