Long-term faunal changes in a regulated and an unregulated stream - Cow Green thirty years on

River Research and Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 947-966

  Armitage, Patrick D ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aquatic invertebrates; Biotic interactions; Ecological assessment; Long term studies; Microcrustacea; Periphyton; Plankton; Regulated river ecology

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOTIC FACTOR; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CRUSTACEAN; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FLOW STABILITY; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RIVER FLOW; TAXONOMY;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANCYLUS FLUVIATILIS; BRACHYCENTRUS SUBNUBILUS; COELENTERATA; EPHEMERELLA IGNITA; GAMMARUS; GAMMARUS PULEX; HEPTAGENIIDAE; HYDRA SP.; HYDROPSYCHIDAE; HYDROPTILA; INVERTEBRATA; LEUCTRIDAE; LYMNAEA; NAIDIDAE; RADIX PEREGRA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33751354622     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.952     Document Type: Article

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