Are tropical streams ecologically different from temperate streams?

Tropical Stream Ecology

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 257-284

  Boulton, Andrew J ^a   Boyero, Luz ^b   Covich, Alan P ^c   Dobson, Michael ^d   Lake, Sam ^e   Pearson, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d FRESHWATER BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION   (United Kingdom)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-012088449-0.50011-X     Document Type: Chapter

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