Invertebrate assemblages associated with plant debris in a backwater of a mountain stream: Natural leaf packs vs. debris dam

Journal of Freshwater Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 39-49

  Casas, J Jesús ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVERTEBRATA; PLECOPTERA;

EID: 0030998133     PISSN: 02705060     EISSN: 21566941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02705060.1997.9663507     Document Type: Article

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