Introduction to landscape influences on stream habitats and biological assemblages

American Fisheries Society Symposium

Volumn 2006, Issue 48, 2006, Pages 1-23

  Wang, Lizhu ^a   Seelbach, Paul W ^a   Hughes, Robert M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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