Linking the hydraulic world of individual organisms to ecological processes: Putting ecology into ecohydraulics

River Research and Applications

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 385-403

  Lancaster, Jill ^a   Downes, Barbara J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aquatic insects; Benthic invertebrates; Flow preference; Habitat preference; Habitat suitability; Hydraulics; Hydrodynamics; Streams

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AQUATIC ORGANISM; BENTHOS; BODY SIZE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOHYDROLOGY; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FECUNDITY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT SELECTION; HYDRAULICS; INSECT; POPULATION DENSITY; WATER FLOW;

HEXAPODA; HYDROPSYCHIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; SIMULIIDAE;

EID: 77951438386     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: 15351467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.1274     Document Type: Article

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