Effects of an experimental enrichment of instream habitat heterogeneity on the stream bed morphology and chironomid community of a straightened section in a sandy lowland stream

Environmental Management

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 247-257

  Spänhoff, Bernd ^a,b   Riss, Wolfgang ^a   Jäkel, Paul ^a   Dakkak, Nadja ^a   Meyer, Elisabeth I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chironomid community; Drift; Habitat enrichment; Pupal exuviae; Stream restoration; Woody debris

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; MORPHOLOGY; STREAM FLOW; WOOD;

CHIRONOMID COMMUNITY; DRIFT; HABITAT ENRICHMENT; PUPAL EXUVIAE; STREAM RESTORATION; WOODY DEBRIS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; HETEROGENEITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; STREAM; SUCCESSION; ZOOBENTHOS;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHIRONOMIDAE; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; NONHUMAN; SANDY SOIL; SPECIES HABITAT; STREAM (RIVER); WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST; WOOD DEBRIS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CHIRONOMIDAE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LARVA; RIVERS; TREES; WATER MOVEMENTS; WOOD;

WOOD;

CHIRONOMIDAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 31544468972     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-005-0064-y     Document Type: Article

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