Recovery of aquatic macroinvertebrate communities from drought in Georgia Piedmont headwater streams

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 259-272

  Churchel, Melissa A ^a   Batzer, Darold P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HEADWATER; MACROINVERTEBRATE; REGENERATION;

GEORGIA; NORTH AMERICA; PIEDMONT [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 33845212841     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(2006)156[259:ROAMCF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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