Assessment of regulated rivers with indices based on macroinvertebrates, fish and riparian forest in the southeast of Spain

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 935-942

  Navarro Llácer, Cáliz ^a   Baeza, Domingo ^a,b   de las Heras, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b Ecohidraúlica SL ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Ecological status; Flow regime; Multimetric index; Reference conditions; Reservoir; Water Framework Directive

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL STATUS; FLOW REGIMES; MULTIMETRIC INDEX; REFERENCE CONDITION; RESERVOIR WATER;

ECOSYSTEMS; FLOW OF WATER; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; RESERVOIRS (WATER); WATER CONSERVATION; WATER RESOURCES;

RIVERS;

ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FISH; FLOW PATTERN; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; RESERVOIR; RIPARIAN FOREST; RIVER CHANNEL;

SEGURA BASIN; SPAIN;

EID: 77951141974     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2010.02.003     Document Type: Article

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