Limestone treatment of Whetstone Brook, Massachusetts. III. Changes in the invertebrate fauna

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 284-292

  Simmons, Kenneth R ^a   Doyle, Katheryn ^b  

^a Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID PRECIPITATION; INVERTEBRATE FAUNA; LIMING;

USA, MASSACHUSETTS, WHETSTONE BROOK;

CHIRONOMIDAE; DIPTERA; EPEORUS; HYDROPSYCHE; LEUCTRA; PLECOPTERA; SIMULIIDAE; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 0030326798     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.1996.tb00180.x     Document Type: Article

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