Primary production, bacterial production, and invertebrate biomass in pools and riffles in southern Ontario streams

Archiv fur Hydrobiologie

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 301-316

  Rosenfeld, Jordan S ^a   Hudson, J J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

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