Resistance and resilience of macroinvertebrate assemblages to drying and flood in a tallgrass prairie stream system

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 527, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 99-112

  Fritz, Ken M ^a   Dodds, Walter K ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

disturbance; drying; floods; intermittent streams; macroinvertebrates; prairie streams

Indexed keywords

LANDSCAPE; STREAMS;

DROUGHT; FLOOD CONTROL; RIVERS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

COLONIZATION; DROUGHT; FLOODING; MACROINVERTEBRATE; RECOVERY; STREAM;

KANSAS; KINGS CREEK; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 5444251221     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:HYDR.0000043188.53497.9b     Document Type: Article

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