Woody debris accumulations - Important ecological components in a low order forest stream (Weidlingbach, Lower Austria)

International Review of Hydrobiology

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 427-437

  Weigelhofer, G ^a   Waringer, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Debris dams; Flow refugia; Formation; Macroinvertebrates; Persistence; Retention structures; Woody debris accumulations

Indexed keywords

MACROINVERTEBRATE; STREAM; WOODY DEBRIS;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 0032849294     PISSN: 14342944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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