The relationship between land use and physicochemistry, food resources and macroinvertebrate communities in tributaries of the Taieri River, New Zealand: A hierarchically scaled approach

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 177-191

  Townsend, Colin R ^a   Arbuckle, Chris J ^a   Crowl, Todd A ^b   Scarsbrook, Mike R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD RESOURCE; LAND USE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; WATER CHEMISTRY;

NEW ZEALAND, SOUTH ISLAND, TAIERI RIVER;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030621336     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1997.00151.x     Document Type: Review

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