Production of benthic macroinvertebrate communities along a southern Appalachian river continuum

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 581-596

  Grubaugh, Jack W ^a,b   Wallace, J Bruce ^a   Houston, Elizabeth S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRYOPHYTA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

BENTHOS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; RIVER CONTINUUM; SECONDARY PRODUCTION;

USA, APPALACHIANS;

EID: 0030616621     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1997.d01-578.x     Document Type: Article

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