Multiple stressors in coupled river-floodplain ecosystems

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 55, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages 135-151

  Tockner, Klement ^a   Pusch, Martin ^a   Borchardt, Dietrich ^b   Lorang, Mark S ^c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Connectivity; Life cycle; Multiple stress index; Restoration; Subsidy stress hypothesis; Wetland

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 74549150599     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02371.x     Document Type: Article

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