Effects of bioengineered streambank stabilization on bank habitat and macroinvertebrates in urban streams

Environmental Management

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 218-226

  Sudduth, Elizabeth B ^a   Meyer, Judy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bank habitat; Bank stabilization; Bioengineering; Macroinvertebrates; Peachtree Creek; Stream restoration; Urban streams

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; EROSION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; RESTORATION; STREAM FLOW; URBAN PLANNING;

BANK HABITATS; MACROINVERTEBRATES; STREAMBANK EROSION; STREAMBANK STABILIZATION;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER);

BANK EROSION; BIOENGINEERING; BIOMASS; MACROINVERTEBRATE; STABILIZATION; STREAM; URBANIZATION;

ANNELID WORM; BIOENGINEERING; BIOMASS; BIOME; CHIRONOMIDAE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; POLLUTION; REVIEW; STREAM (RIVER); UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; WOOD;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GEORGIA; INVERTEBRATES; WATER;

ATLANTA; GEORGIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CHIRONOMIDAE; INSECTA; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA);

EID: 33745324949     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-004-0381-6     Document Type: Review

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