Stream ecosystem response to multiple experimental floods from a reservoir

River Research and Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 359-377

  Robinson, Christopher T ^a   Uehlinger, Urs ^a   Monaghan, Michael T ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Flow regime; Fontinalis; Gammarus; Periphyton; Switzerland; Temporal

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; FLOOD; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; MACROINVERTEBRATE; PERIPHYTON; RIVER DISCHARGE; WATER CHEMISTRY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

BAETIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CRENOBIA ALPINA; FONTINALIS; FRAXINUS; GAMMARUS; GAMMARUS FOSSARUM; SIMULIIDAE; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 3342936393     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.743     Document Type: Article

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