Chironomid larval assemblages in the enclosed Rhine-Meuse Delta: Spatio-temporal patterns in an exposure gradient on a tidal sandy flat

Archiv fur Hydrobiologie

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 487-510

  Smit, Henk ^a   Van Der Velde, Gerard ^b   Dirksen, Sjoerd ^c  

^a National Institute for Coastal and Marine Management RIKZ   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Bureau Waardenburg   (Netherlands)

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