Global climate change in large European rivers: Long-term effects on macroinvertebrate communities and potential local confounding factors

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1085-1099

  Floury, Mathieu ^a   Usseglio Polatera, Philippe ^b   Ferreol, Martial ^c   Delattre, Cecile ^a   Souchon, Yves ^c  

^a EDF R AND D   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c UR MALY   (France)

Author keywords

Benthos; Community structure; Global change; Invasive species; Large rivers; Long term trends; Multiple stressors; Warming; Water quality

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISCHARGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EUTROPHICATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INVASIVE SPECIES; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; SPECIALIZATION; TAXONOMY; WARMING; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EUROPE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INVERTEBRATE; PHYSIOLOGY; RIVER;

ANIMALS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EUROPE; GLOBAL WARMING; INVERTEBRATES; RIVERS;

FRANCE; LOIRE RIVER;

ATYAEPHYRA DESMARESTII; BRACHYCENTRIDAE; CHLOROPERLIDAE; CORBICULA; INVERTEBRATA; PHILOPOTAMIDAE; POTAMANTHIDAE; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 84874784937     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12124     Document Type: Article

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