A novel approach to assess the impact of landuse activity on chemical and biological parameters in river catchments

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1273-1289

  Johnson, M J ^a   Giller, P S ^a   O'Halloran, J ^a   O'Gorman, K ^a   Gallagher, M B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Biotic changes; Clearfelling; Disturbance index; Environmental variability; Hydrochemical changes; Impact assessment; River catchments

Indexed keywords

BIOMONITORING; CATCHMENT; CLEARCUTTING; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; LAND USE; MACROINVERTEBRATE;

EPHEMEROPTERA; PLECOPTERA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 21244484657     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2005.01389.x     Document Type: Article

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