Macroinvertebrate communities of karst springs of two river catchments in the Southern Limestone Alps (the Julian Alps, NW Slovenia)

Aquatic Ecology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 69-83

  Mori, Nataša ^a   Brancelj, Anton ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Community analysis; Ecology; Freshwater; Macrobenthos; Springs

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; MACROINVERTEBRATE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SLOVENIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ANNELIDA; BELGRANDIELLA; CHIRONOMIDAE; DIPTERA; ENCHYTRAEIDAE; GASTROPODA; LIMNEPHILIDAE; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA); TRICHOPTERA; TRICLADIDA; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 33644517229     PISSN: 13862588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10452-005-9018-y     Document Type: Article

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