Impact of a 100-year flood on vegetation, benthic invertebrates, riparian fauna and large woody debris standing stock in an alpine floodplain

River Research and Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 445-457

  Hering, Daniel ^a   Gerhard, Marc ^b   Manderbach, Randolf ^c   Reich, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b Inst Landscape Plan/Nat Conserv   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alluvial floodplain; Benthic macroinvertebrates; Flood; Floodplain vegetation; Large woody debris; Residual flow; Riparian fauna

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL PLAIN; BENTHIC INFAUNA; FLOOD; FLOODPLAIN; MACROINVERTEBRATE; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; WOODY DEBRIS;

BAVARIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; ISAR RIVER;

CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; RIPARIA; SALIX;

EID: 3342936392     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.759     Document Type: Article

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