Ecological impacts of small dams on South African rivers part 2: Biotic response - abundance and composition of macroinvertebrate communities

Water SA

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 361-370

  Mantel, Sukhmani K ^a   Muller, Nikite W J ^a   Hughes, Denis A ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cumulative impacts; Environmental water quality; Ephemeroptera; Reduced low flows; Trichoptera

Indexed keywords

CUMULATIVE EFFECTS; CUMULATIVE IMPACTS; DAM CONSTRUCTION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS; ENVIRONMENTAL WATER; HIGH DENSITY; INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITIES; LOW FLOW; MACROINVERTEBRATE COMMUNITY; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; RIVER CATCHMENT; RIVER HEALTH; SMALL DAMS; SOUTH AFRICA; TOTAL DISSOLVED SALTS; TRICHOPTERA;

CATCHMENTS; DAMS; DECISION MAKING; DISSOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PESTICIDE EFFECTS; RUNOFF; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

RIVERS;

ABUNDANCE; BIOTIC FACTOR; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DAM; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POPULATION DECLINE; RIVER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

MPUMALANGA; SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

EPHEMEROPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 77954279945     PISSN: 03784738     EISSN: 18167950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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