Assessment of river condition at a large spatial scale using predictive models

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 283-298

  Turak, Eren ^a   Flack, Lloyd K ^a   Norris, Richard H ^b   Simpson, Justen ^b   Waddell, Natacha ^a  

^a NSW Environment Protection Authority   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Macroinvertibrates; Predictive models; River condition

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA;

MACROINVERTEBRATE; MODELING; RIVER; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0032918683     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1999.00431.x     Document Type: Article

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