Assessing acid stress in Swedish boreal and alpine streams using benthic macroinvertebrates

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 516, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 129-148

  Sandin, Leonard ^a   Dahl, Joakim ^a   Johnson, Richard K ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acid stress; AQEM; Benthic macroinvertebrates; Biotic index; EC Water Framework Directive; Streams

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; CATCHMENTS; RIVERS;

ACID STRESS; MACROINVERTEBRATES;

ECOLOGY;

ACIDITY; ASSESSMENT METHOD; INDEX METHOD; MACROINVERTEBRATE; STREAM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 3442893402     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:HYDR.0000025262.98511.46     Document Type: Article

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