The effect of pollution on benthic macroinvertebrates in a Ugandan stream

Archiv fur Hydrobiologie

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 537-549

  Matagi, Samuel Vivian ^a  

^a National Water and Sewerage Corporation   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVERTEBRATA; LIMNODRILUS HOFFMEISTERI; TUBIFICIDAE;

EID: 0030466218     PISSN: 00039136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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