Longitudinal patterns of macroinvertebrate functional feeding groups in a Chinese river system: A test for river continuum concept (RCC)

Quaternary International

Volumn 244, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 289-295

  Jiang, Xiaoming ^a,b   Xiong, Jing ^a,b,c   Xie, Zhicai ^a   Chen, Yifeng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Hubei Environmental Monitoring Center   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; MACROINVERTEBRATE;

CHINA; CHISHUI BASIN;

EID: 80053385556     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.08.015     Document Type: Article

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