A new device to extract sediment cages colonized by microfauna from coarse grave river sediments

Archiv fur Hydrobiologie

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 547-561

  Eisenmann, Heinrich ^a   Traunspurger, Walter ^b   Meyer, Elisabeth I ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

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