Reproducibility of AUSRIVAS rapid bioassessments using macroinvertebrates

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 126-139

  Hose, Grant ^a,b   Turak, Eren ^a   Waddell, Natacha ^a  

^a NSW Environment Protection Authority   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

AUSRIVAS; Band allocation; Macroinvertebrates; O E Taxa values; Rapid bioassessments; Reproducibility; Taxa richness

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; MACROINVERTEBRATE; STREAM;

EID: 1342311988     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1899/0887-3593(2004)023<0126:ROARBU>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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