Effects of buried leaf litter and vertical hydrologic exchange on hyporheic water chemistry and fauna in a gravel-bed river in northern New South Wales, Australia

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 229-243

  Boulton, Andrew J ^a   Foster, J G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; HYDROLOGY;

FAUNA; GRAVEL BED STREAM; HYPORHEIC ZONE; LEAF LITTER; WATER CHEMISTRY;

AUSTRALIA;

ACARI; COLEOPTERA; ELMIDAE; EPHEMEROPTERA; LEPTOPHLEBIIDAE; OLIGOCHAETA;

EID: 0031690030     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1998.00345.x     Document Type: Article

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