Assessing and restoring the health of urban streams in the Puget Sound Basin

Conservation Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1498-1509

  Morley, Sarah A ^a,b   Karr, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; STREAM; URBAN AREA; ZOOBENTHOS;

UNITED STATES;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036900546     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2002.01067.x     Document Type: Article

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