Effects of mesohabitat sampling strategy on the assessment of stream quality with benthic invertebrate assemblages

Archiv fur Hydrobiologie

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 493-510

  Beisel, Jean Nicolas ^a   Usseglio Polatera, Philippe ^a,b   Thomas, Sandra ^a   Moreteau, Jean Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SAMPLING; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BIOMONITORING; HABITAT USE; INVERTEBRATE; MACROBENTHOS; SAMPLING; STREAM;

EID: 0031847603     PISSN: 00039136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/archiv-hydrobiol/142/1998/493     Document Type: Article

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