Streams in the urban landscape

Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics

Volumn 32, Issue , 2001, Pages 333-365

  Paul, M J ^a   Meyer, J L ^a  

^a TETRA TECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological assessment; Contaminants; Fluvial geomorphology; Hydrology; Impervious surface cover

Indexed keywords

FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM; URBAN AREA;

ALGAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035673406     PISSN: 00664162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.32.081501.114040     Document Type: Review

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