The Danube Restoration Project: Species diversity patterns across connectivity gradients in the floodplain system

Regulated Rivers: Research and Management

Volumn 15, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 245-258

  Tockner, K ^a   Schiemer, F ^b   Baumgartner, C ^b   Kum, G ^c   Weigand, E ^b   Zweimuller I ^b   Ward, J V ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Beta diversity; Connectivity; Habitat heterogeneity; Macrophytae; Mollusca; Odonata; River restoration; Species richness

Indexed keywords

FLOODPLAIN; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RIVER;

AUSTRIA; DANUBE RIVER;

AMPHIBIA; MOLLUSCA; ODONATA;

EID: 0033028265     PISSN: 08869375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1646(199901/06)15:1/3<245::AID-RRR540>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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