Creativity, idea generation, and the functional morphology of streams

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 305-318

  Fisher, Stuart G ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Creativity; Ecosystem structure and function; Stream morphology; Stream network

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030997777     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1468020     Document Type: Article

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