Hyporheic community composition in a gravel-bed stream: Influence of vertical hydrological exchange, sediment structure and physicochemistry

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1363-1378

  Olsen, Dean A ^a,b   Townsend, Colin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Hyporheos; Interstitial; Invertebrates; Streams

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GRAVEL BED STREAM; HYPORHEIC ZONE; INVERTEBRATE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SEDIMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

NEW ZEALAND;

ACARI; ARTHROPODA; EPHEMEROPTERA; HYDRACARINA; INVERTEBRATA; ISOPODA; LEPTOPHLEBIIDAE;

EID: 0041699695     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.2003.01097.x     Document Type: Article

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