"HKH screening": A field bio-assessment to evaluate the ecological status of streams in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 651, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 25-37

  Hartmann, Anne ^a   Moog, Otto ^a   Stubauer, Ilse ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Benthic invertebrates; Hindu Kush Himalaya; Rapid field assessment; River quality assessment; Screening

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES; FIELD ASSESSMENT; HIMALAYAS; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; RAPID FIELD ASSESSMENT;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY;

RIVERS;

BENTHIC INFAUNA; BIOINDICATOR; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA SET; ECOREGION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; EUROPEAN UNION; FIELD SURVEY; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MOUNTAIN REGION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RIVER WATER; STREAM; WATER QUALITY;

BANGLADESH; BHUTAN; HIMALAYAS; HINDU KUSH; INDIA; NEPAL; PAKISTAN;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 77953872094     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0288-6     Document Type: Article

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