Environmental flow allocations in monsoonal Hong Kong

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1209-1230

  Niu, Sophia Q ^a   Dudgeon, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Discharge; Hydro ecological relationships; Macroinvertebrates; Periphyton; Tropical streams

Indexed keywords

EPHEMEROPTERA; HYDROPSYCHIDAE; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 79954827804     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2010.02558.x     Document Type: Article

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