Two lowland stream riffles - Linkages between physical habitats and macroinvertebrates across multiple spatial scales

Aquatic Ecology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 475-490

  Pedersen, Morten Lauge ^a   Friberg, Nikolai ^a  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Colonisation; EPT taxa; Habitats; Spatial variation; Streams

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURE; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; RIFFLE; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREAM;

DIPTERA;

EID: 36148961565     PISSN: 13862588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10452-004-1584-x     Document Type: Article

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