Scour and fill patterns in a New Zealand stream and potential implications for invertebrate refugia

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 41-57

  Matthaei, Christoph D ^a,b   Peacock, Kathi A ^a   Townsend, Colin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Hyporheic refugium hypothesis; Invertebrates; Refugia; Streams

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HYPORHEIC ZONE; INVERTEBRATE; REFUGE;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0032839840     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1999.00456.x     Document Type: Article

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