Ecohydraulics needs to embrace ecology and sound science, and to avoid mathematical artefacts

River Research and Applications

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 921-929

  Lancaster, Jill ^a   Downes, Barbara J ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ecohydraulics; Ecology; Flow preference; Population ecology; Type 1 error

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ECOHYDROLOGY; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT SELECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION ECOLOGY;

EID: 77957136630     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: 15351467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.1425     Document Type: Article

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