Macrobenthic fauna similarity on a cobble substrate in the Sava River

Periodicum Biologorum

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 57-68

  Radanović, Ines ^a   Habdija, Ivan ^a   Primc Habdija, Biserka ^a   Kepćija, Renata Matoničkin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Cobbles; Gravel; Macrozoobenthos; Pebbles; Permanent and temporary fauna; River Sava; Similarity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CROATIA; FAUNA; LIFE CYCLE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MICROHABITAT; SLOVENIA;

EID: 33644603997     PISSN: 00315362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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