River flow controls ecological processes and invertebrate assemblages in subsurface flowpaths of an ephemeral river reach

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1532-1544

  Datry, Thibault ^a,b   Larned, Scott T ^b  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED INORGANIC NITROGEN; DISSOLVED INORGANIC PHOSPHORUS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; EPHEMERAL STREAM; INVERTEBRATE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITRATE; POPULATION DENSITY; RIPARIAN ZONE; RIVER CHANNEL; RIVER FLOW; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 48949101385     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F08-075     Document Type: Article

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