The relative influence of catchment, riparian corridor, and reach-scale anthropogenic pressures on fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages in French rivers

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 704, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 375-388

  Marzin, Anahita ^a   Verdonschot, Piet F M ^b   Pont, Didier ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fish; Human pressures; Land use; Macroinvertebrate; Redundancy analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODEGRADATION; CATCHMENT; DATA SET; FISH; LAND USE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MORPHOLOGY; RIPARIAN ZONE; RIVER; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; WATER QUALITY;

FRANCE;

EID: 84873747375     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-012-1254-2     Document Type: Article

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