Hydraulic habitat composition and diversity in rural and urban stream reaches of the North Carolina Piedmont (USA)

River Research and Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1082-1103

  Shoffner, Deborah ^a   Royall, Dan ^b  

^a Stormwater Management Division   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Hydraulic biotope; Lotic habitat; Stream urban

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOTOPE; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; LOTIC ENVIRONMENT; MORPHODYNAMICS; RURAL AREA; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM; URBAN AREA;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 58349115501     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.1097     Document Type: Article

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