Hydromorphological complexity as a driver of the diversity of benthic invertebrate communities in the Czarny Dunajec River, Polish Carpathians

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 696, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-46

  Wyżga, Bartłomiej ^a   Oglęcki, Paweł ^b   Radecki Pawlik, Artur ^c   Skalski, Tomasz ^d   Zawiejska, Joanna ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF NATURE CONSERVATION   (Poland)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE IN KRAKOW   (Poland)

^d JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^e PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Flow pattern complexity; Habitat heterogeneity; Hydromorphology; Invertebrate diversity; Water quality

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; COMPLEXITY; FLOW PATTERN; HETEROGENEITY; INVERTEBRATE; LOW FLOW; MORPHOLOGY; MOUNTAIN STREAM; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; RIVER SYSTEM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; WATER QUALITY;

CARPATHIANS; DUNAJEC RIVER; POLAND;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84865409596     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-012-1180-3     Document Type: Article

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