Use of biological traits for interpreting functional relationships in large rivers

Limnologica

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 451-459

  Haybach, Arne ^a   Schöll, Franz ^a   König, Bernd ^a   Kohmann, Fritz ^a  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF HYDROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biological traits; Measure disturbance; River functions; rK continuum

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOCOENOSIS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; MACROINVERTEBRATE; RIVER;

EID: 11944249168     PISSN: 00759511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0075-9511(04)80012-4     Document Type: Article

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