Impact of a changed inundation regime caused by climate change and floodplain rehabilitation on population viability of earthworms in a lower River Rhine floodplain

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 372, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 585-594

  Thonon, Ivo ^a   Klok, Chris ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change; Floodplains; Lumbricus rubellus; Modelling; Population viability; River rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FLOODS; SOILS;

FLOODPLAINS; LUMBRICUS RUBELLUS; POPULATION VIABILITY; RIVER REHABILITATION;

BIODIVERSITY;

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTHWORM; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOOD ROUTING; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; RIVER MANAGEMENT; SOIL POLLUTION;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTHWORM; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; GERMANY; GOVERNMENT; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SEASON; SOIL POLLUTION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; NATURAL DISASTERS; NETHERLANDS; OLIGOCHAETA; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AFFERDENSCHE AND DEESTSCHE WAARDEN; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; GELDERLAND; NETHERLANDS; RHINE RIVER; WAAL RIVER; WESTERN EUROPE;

ATHENE NOCTUA; INVERTEBRATA; LUMBRICUS RUBELLUS; MELES MELES; TAXIDIINAE;

EID: 33845925047     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2006.10.028     Document Type: Article

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