Riverine landscapes: Taking landscape ecology into the water

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 501-515

  Wiens, John A ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological flows; Landscape ecology; River ecosystems; Scale; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; WATER FLOW;

EID: 0036222358     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.2002.00887.x     Document Type: Article

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