Impacts of a small dam on riverine zooplankton

International Review of Hydrobiology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 297-311

  Zhou, Shuchan ^a,b   Tang, Tao ^a   Wu, Naicheng ^a   Fu, Xiaocheng ^a   Cai, Qinghua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

In channel dam; Small hydropower plant; Xiangxi river

Indexed keywords

DAMS; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; RIVERS;

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CONNECTIVITY; DAM; DAM CONSTRUCTION; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT; RIVER; ZOOPLANKTON;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HUBEI; XIANGXI RIVER;

COPEPODA; ROTIFERA;

EID: 54549096855     PISSN: 14342944     EISSN: 15222632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iroh.200711038     Document Type: Article

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