Short-term climatic trends affect the temporal variability of macroinvertebrates in California 'Mediterranean' streams

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2317-2339

  Bêche, Leah A ^a,b   Resh, Vincent H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Drought; El Ni o Southern Oscillation; Long term data; Persistence; Stability

Indexed keywords

CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 36248981372     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2007.01859.x     Document Type: Article

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