Trends in water quality and discharge confound long-term warming effects on river macroinvertebrates

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 388-405

  Durance, Isabelle ^a   Ormerod, S J ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Flow; Insects; Pollution; Streams; Temperature

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 58249103984     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.02112.x     Document Type: Article

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