Tools for assessing European streams with macroinvertebrates: Major results and conclusions from the STAR project

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 566, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 299-309

  Verdonschot, Piet F M ^a   Moog, Otto ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Assessment; Autecology; Database; Index; Metric; Multimetrics

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; METRIC SYSTEM; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

ASSESSMENT; AUTECOLOGY; INDEX; MULTIMETRICS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

AUTECOLOGY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DATABASE; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; MACROINVERTEBRATE; STREAM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION;

EID: 33746256550     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-006-0088-1     Document Type: Article

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