Defining hyporheic zones - advancing our conceptual and operational definitions of where stream water and groundwater meet

Geography Compass

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 945-955

  Gooseff, Michael N ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; GROUNDWATER; HYPORHEIC ZONE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; STREAMWATER;

EID: 77956622849     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00364.x     Document Type: Review

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