Influences of environmental conditions on macrophyte communities in drought-affected headwater streams

River Research and Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 703-726

  Westwood, C G ^a,b   Teeuw, R M ^c   Wade, P M ^d   Holmes, N T H ^e   Guyard, P ^b  

^a Environmental Research Associates   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Portsmouth ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d RPS   (United Kingdom)

^e Alconbury Environmental Consultants   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chalk streams; Drought; Hydroecology; Macrophyte communities; Multivariate analyses; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HEADWATER; MACROPHYTE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW;

POACEAE;

EID: 33746571976     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.934     Document Type: Article

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