Regional assessment of wadable streams in Idaho, USA

Great Basin Naturalist

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 54-65

  Robinson, Christopher T ^a,b   Wayne Minshall, G ^a  

^a Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Bioassessment; Ecoregion; Habitat; Idaho; Macroinvertebrates; Phosphorus

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 6844226184     PISSN: 00173614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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