Pressure-response relationships in stream ecology: Introduction and synthesis

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1367-1381

  Friberg, Nikolai ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Land use; Large data sets; Macroinvertebrates; Monitoring; Pollution; Water framework directive

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954610659     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2010.02442.x     Document Type: Article

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