Hyporheic bacteria - Relationships to environmental gradients and invertebrates in a prealpine stream

Archiv fur Hydrobiologie

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 189-217

  Brunke, M ^a,b   Fischer, H ^b  

^a Limnological Research Center   (Switzerland)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; HYPORHEIC ZONE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

SWITZERLAND;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032756484     PISSN: 00039136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/archiv-hydrobiol/146/1999/189     Document Type: Article

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