Long-term effects of climatic-hydrological drivers on macroinvertebrate richness and composition in two Mediterranean streams

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1313-1328

  Pace, Giorgio ^a   Bonada, Núria ^a   Prat, Narcís ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Droughts; Floods; Mesoclimates; Reference conditions; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

EPHEMEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; PLECOPTERA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 84878660545     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12129     Document Type: Article

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