Larval settlement in benthic environments: The effects of velocity and bed element geometry

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 904-915

  Fingerut, Jonathan T ^a,b   Hart, D D ^a,c   Thomson, J R ^d  

^a ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Flow; Larvae; Settlement; Stream; Substrate

Indexed keywords

INVERTEBRATA; SIMULIIDAE; SIMULIUM NIGRICOXUM; SIMULIUM VITTATUM;

EID: 79953316715     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2010.02535.x     Document Type: Article

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