Changes in macroinvertebrate and fish assemblages in a medium-sized river following a breach of a low-head dam

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1055-1068

  Maloney, Kelly O ^a,b   Dodd, Hope R ^a,c   Butler, Steven E ^a   Wahl, David H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Before after control impact; Dam removal; Non metric multidimensional scaling; Restoration; Temporal variation

Indexed keywords

EPHEMEROPTERA; HYDROPSYCHIDAE; OSTRACODA; PLECOPTERA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 41849124506     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.01956.x     Document Type: Article

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