Use of Shields stress to reconstruct and forecast changes in river metabolism

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1587-1601

  Cronin, Greg ^b   McCutchan Jr , James H ^a   Pitlick, John ^a   Lewis Jr , William M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Photosynthesis; Respiration; Shields stress; Stream metabolism

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447336093     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2007.01790.x     Document Type: Article

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