Seasonal and inter-annual variability in hyporheic water quality revealed by continuous monitoring in a salmon spawning stream

River Research and Applications

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1304-1319

  Soulsby, C ^a   Malcolm, I A ^b   Tetzlaff, D ^a   Youngson, A F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atlantic salmon; Dissolved oxygen; Groundwater surface water interactions; Hyporheic; Spawning

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; DIURNAL VARIATION; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HYPORHEIC ZONE; MONITORING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SALMONID; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPAWNING; STREAM; WATER QUALITY;

SALMO SALAR;

EID: 77951175595     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: 15351467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.1241     Document Type: Article

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