Importance of the shoreline diversity features for littoral macroinvertebrate assemblages

Fundamental and Applied Limnology

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 175-184

  Jurca, Tamara ^a,b   Donohue, Louise ^a   Laketić, Dušanka ^b   Radulović, Snežana ^b   Irvine, Kenneth ^c  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^c UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ecological quality; Habitat diversity; Hydromorphology; LHS metrics; Littoral macroinvertebrates

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EUTROPHICATION; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MACROPHYTE; PHOSPHORUS; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SHORELINE CHANGE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

IRELAND;

EID: 84875967222     PISSN: 18639135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/1863-9135/2012/0315     Document Type: Article

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