Effects of disturbance on an urban river food web

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2613-2628

  Calizza, Edoardo ^a   Costantini, Maria Letizia ^a   Rossi, David ^b   Carlino, Pasquale ^a   Rossi, Loreto ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Flood; Food web; Invertebrates; River; Urbanisation

Indexed keywords

INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84867910370     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12033     Document Type: Article

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