Relationships between benthic biota and hydrological indices in New Zealand streams

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 327-342

  Clausen, Bente ^a,b   Biggs, Barry J F ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC BIOTA; BENTHOS; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOW REGIME; HYDROLOGICAL INDICES; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; STREAM;

NEW ZEALAND;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030656369     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1997.00230.x     Document Type: Article

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