Functional characteristics of wilderness streams twenty years following wildfire

Western North American Naturalist

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-10

  Robinson, Christopher T ^a   Uehlinger, Urs ^a   Minshall, G Wayne ^b  

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

^b Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel morphology; Metabolism; Retention; Storage; Uptake; Woody debris

Indexed keywords

EID: 13244274378     PISSN: 15270904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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