Winter disturbances and riverine fish in temperate and cold regions

BioScience

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 199-210

  Weber, Christine ^a   Nilsson, Christer ^a   Lind, Lovisa ^a   Alfredsen, Knut T ^b   Polvi, Lina E ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

climate change; ice; persistence; refugia; rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875285485     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2013.63.3.8     Document Type: Review

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