Assessing macroinvertebrate metrics for classifying acidified rivers across northern Europe

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1382-1404

  Jannicke Moe, S ^a   Schartau, Ann Kristin ^b   Bækken, Torleif ^a   Mcfarland, Ben ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acidification; Humic content; Modelling; Nonlinear regression; Water Framework Directive

Indexed keywords

EPHEMEROPTERA;

EID: 77954616703     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2010.02413.x     Document Type: Article

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