Drift and settlement of stream insects in a complex hydraulic environment

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1020-1035

  Oldmeadow, David F ^a   Lancaster, Jill ^a,b   Rice, Stephen P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ephemeroptera; Habitat preference; Movement; Step bedform; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

BAETIS; BAETIS RHODANI; ECDYONURUS; ECDYONURUS TORRENTIS; EPHEMEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 72449157492     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02338.x     Document Type: Article

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