Stabilization of fine gravels by net-spinning caddisfly larvae

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 413-423

  Johnson, Matthew F ^a   Reid, Ian ^a   Rice, Stephen P ^a   Wood, Paul J ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Ecosystem engineering; Entrainment threshold; Hydropsychidae; Shields parameter

Indexed keywords

BIOFILM DEVELOPMENT; BIOTIC PROCESS; COLONIZATION PROCESS; CONDITIONING PROCESS; CRITICAL SHEAR STRESS; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; ENTRAINMENT THRESHOLD; HYDROPSYCHIDAE; INCIPIENT MOTION; NATURAL DENSITY; NATURAL STREAMS; SEDIMENT MOBILITY; SHIELDS PARAMETER; SHIELDS PARAMETERS; SIMILAR DEGREE; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TWO-WAY ANOVA;

BIOFILMS; LABORATORIES; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHEAR STRESS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STREAM FLOW; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

GRAVEL;

BIOFILM; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; ENTRAINMENT; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; GRAVEL; LABORATORY METHOD; SHEAR STRESS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STABILIZATION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; THRESHOLD; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LEICESTERSHIRE; SOAR RIVER; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

HYDROPSYCHIDAE; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 66149151816     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1750     Document Type: Article

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