Post-Flood recovery of a macroinvertebrate community in a regulated River: Resilience of an anthropogenically altered ecosystem

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 24-33

  Rader, Russell B ^a   Voelz, Neal J ^b   Ward, James V ^c,d  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Floods; Macroinvertebrate diversity; Stream regulation; Stream restoration; Temperature restoration

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; RESILIENCE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; STREAM; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

COLORADO RIVER [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 40849119840     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2007.00258.x     Document Type: Article

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