How well do New Zealand's stream-monitoring indicators, the macroinvertebrate community index and its quantitative variant, correspond?

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 461-470

  Wright Stow, A E ^a,b   Winterbourn, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Community indices; New Zealand; Ordinal index; Rivers; Stream health; Water quality

Indexed keywords

BIOMONITORING; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; INDEX METHOD; MACROINVERTEBRATE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; STREAM;

CANTERBURY; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 0142123141     PISSN: 00288330     EISSN: 11758805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288330.2003.9517180     Document Type: Article

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