Querying the obvious: Lessons from a degraded stream

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 312-316

  Pohlon, Elisabeth ^a   Augspurger, Clemens ^a   Risse buhl, Ute ^a   Arle, Jens ^a   Willkomm, Marlene ^a   Halle, Stefan ^a   Küsel, Kirsten ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Conceptual model; Disturbance; Microbial activity; Stream ecosystems; Weirs

Indexed keywords

BIOFILM; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; ORGANIC MATTER; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; STREAM; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; ILM RIVER;

EID: 34249698123     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2007.00215.x     Document Type: Article

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