Surface-subsurface water exchange rates along alluvial river reaches control the thermal patterns in an Alpine river network

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 306-320

  Acuna V ^a   Tockner, K ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Floodplain ecology; Global warming; Hyporheic zone; Thermal refugia; Water temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 58249106855     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.02109.x     Document Type: Article

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