Abiotic controls on periphyton accrual and metabolism in streams: Scaling by dimensionless numbers

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Warnaars, Tanya A ^a   Hondzo, Miki ^a   Power, Mary E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; DRAINAGE; MEASUREMENT THEORY; METABOLISM; REMOTE SENSING; SHEAR STRESS; SOLAR RADIATION;

ABIOTIC CONTROLS; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS; PERIPHYTON ACCRUAL; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE SOLAR RADIATION;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ASPECT RATIO; DRAINAGE; ECOSYSTEMS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; METABOLISM; REMOTE SENSING; SHEAR STRESS; SOLAR RADIATION;

BIOMASS; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBER; DRAINAGE; FLUID MECHANICS; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PERIPHYTON; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; REMOTE SENSING; TOPOGRAPHY;

CALIFORNIA; EEL RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH FORK EEL RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34848903279     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005002     Document Type: Article

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