Small-sized invertebrates in a gravel stream: Community structure and variability of benthic rotifers

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 25-39

  Schmid Araya, J M ^a,b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GRAVEL-BED STREAM; ZOOBENTHOS;

BDELLOIDEA; MONOGONONTA; ROTIFERA;

EID: 0031908618     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1998.00259.x     Document Type: Article

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