Re-meandering german lowland streams: Qualitative and quantitative effects of restoration measures on hydromorphology and macroinvertebrates

Environmental Management

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 745-754

  Lorenz, Armin W ^a   Jähnig, Sonja C ^b   Hering, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biotic substrates; Diversity; Habitat quality; Macroinvertebrates; Restoration; Richness; Sand bottom streams

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC SUBSTRATES; DIVERSITY; HABITAT QUALITY; MACROINVERTEBRATES; RICHNESS;

ECOLOGY; OCEAN HABITATS; RESTORATION; RIVERS;

SUBSTRATES;

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BIOTIC FACTOR; COLONIZATION; DEAD WOOD; FAUNISTICS; FLOODPLAIN; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; HABITAT QUALITY; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MACROPHYTE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUBSTRATE; SUCCESSION;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; FAUNA; FLOODPLAIN; GERMANY; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MACROPHYTE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIVER; STREAM (RIVER); TAXONOMY; WOOD;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; INVERTEBRATES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVERS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 70349781666     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-009-9350-4     Document Type: Article

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