Seasonal and diel patterns of invertebrate drift in different alpine stream types

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1078-1092

  Hieber, Mäggi ^a   Robinson, Christopher T ^b   Uehlinger, Urs ^b  

^a Zentrum Angew Oekologie Schattweid   (Switzerland)

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

Author keywords

Chironomidae; Glacial; Lake outlet; Rhithral; Seston

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BIOLOGICAL DRIFT; DIEL VARIATION; INVERTEBRATE; LAKE; SEASONAL VARIATION; STREAM;

CHIRONOMIDAE; DIPTERA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038347269     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.2003.01073.x     Document Type: Article

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