Macroinvertebrate community response to inter-annual and regional river flow regime dynamics

River Research and Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 988-1001

  Monk, Wendy A ^a   Wood, Paul J ^b   Hannah, David M ^c   Wilson, Douglas A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental flows; Hydroecology; Indicators of hydrologic alteration (IHA); Lotic Invertebrate Index for Flow Evaluation (LIFE); River regime variability

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ECOHYDROLOGY; MACROINVERTEBRATE; RIVER FLOW; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES; WESTERN EUROPE;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 52949099544     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.1120     Document Type: Article

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