Macroinvertebrate communities along a third-order Iberian stream

Annales de Limnologie

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 287-296

  Gonzalez J M ^a,b   Basaguren, A ^a   Pozo, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Food resources; Macroinvertebrate communities; Scrapers; Shredders; Streams

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; MACROINVERTEBRATE; SHADING; STREAM; WATER QUALITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0346399832     PISSN: 00034088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/limn/2003023     Document Type: Article

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