A hydrogeography of unregulated streams in the United States and an examination of scale-dependence in some hydrological descriptors

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 71-79

  Poff, N LeRoy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEOGRAPHY; HYDROLOGICAL FACTOR; REGULATION STREAM; STREAM CLASSIFICATION;

USA;

EID: 0030497608     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1996.00073.x     Document Type: Article

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