Current and substrate preferences of benthic invertebrates in the rivers of the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region as indicators of hydromorphological degradation

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 651, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 77-91

  Korte, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

ASSESS HKH; Biomonitoring; Current association; Indicator; Microhabitat; Substrate association

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES; BIOMONITORING; COLEOPTERA; CURRENT VELOCITY; DIPTERA; HIMALAYAS; MANN-WHITNEY U TEST; MICROHABITATS; MOLLUSCA; ODONATA; OLIGOCHAETA; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; REFERENCE SITES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL LINKS; SUBSTRATE TYPES; TRICHOPTERA;

ANIMALS; DEGRADATION; ECOLOGY;

SUBSTRATES;

BENTHIC INFAUNA; BIOMONITORING; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; INVERTEBRATE; MICROHABITAT; MOUNTAIN REGION; RIVER WATER; SAMPLING; SUBSTRATE PREFERENCE; WATER QUALITY;

HIMALAYAS; HINDU KUSH;

ANNELIDA; COLEOPTERA; DIPTERA; EPHEMEROPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA; ODONATA; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA); PLECOPTERA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 77953871072     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0291-y     Document Type: Article

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