Can biological invertebrate traits resolve effects of multiple stressors on running water ecosystems?

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 55, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages 80-119

  Statzner, Bernhard ^a   Bêche, Leah A ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Benthos; Large scale biomonitoring; Reference conditions; River management

Indexed keywords

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EID: 74549215033     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02369.x     Document Type: Article

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