Assessment of river health: Accounting for perturbation pathways in physical and ecological space

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 393-405

  Townsend, Colin R ^a   Riley, Ralph H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Catchment hierarchy; Foodwebs; Perturbation pathways; River health

Indexed keywords

WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 0032892286     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1999.00438.x     Document Type: Article

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