The effectiveness of different buffer widths for protecting water quality and macroinvertebrate and periphyton assemblages of headwater streams in Maine, USA

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 177-190

  Wilkerson, Ethel ^a   Hagan, John M ^a   Whitman, Andrew A ^a  

^a Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences Brunswick   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CHLOROPHYLL A; CLEARCUTTING; CONDUCTIVITY; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; HEADWATER; MACROINVERTEBRATE; PERIPHYTON; PH; PHOSPHORUS; STREAM; TIMBER HARVESTING; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY;

MAINE; UNITED STATES;

ACHNANTHES; ALGAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CRICOTOPUS; DIPTERA; PSECTROCLADIUS;

EID: 72549094091     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F09-162     Document Type: Article

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