Quantifying disturbance in streams: Alternative measures of disturbance in relation to macroinvertebrate species traits and species richness

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 531-544

  Townsend, Colin R ^a,c   Scarsbrook, Mike R ^a   Dolédec, Sylvain ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

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

Author keywords

Disturbance; Disturbance measures; Flood frequency; Macroinvertebrates; Substratum movement

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM BED; WATER FLOW;

INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030885567     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1468142     Document Type: Article

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