Use of thermal preference metrics to examine state biomonitoring data for climate change effects

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1410-1423

  Stamp, Jennifer D ^a   Hamilton, Anna T ^a   Zheng, Lei ^a   Bierwagen, Britta G ^b  

^a TETRA TECH INC   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Climate change; Cold water taxa; Hydrology; Macroinvertebrates; Temperature; Traits; Warm water taxa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875065724     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1899/10-003.1     Document Type: Article

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