Reach and catchment-scale influences on invertebrate assemblages in a river with naturally high fine sediment loads

Limnologica

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 362-370

  Buendia, Cristina ^a,b   Gibbins, Chris N ^a   Vericat, Damià ^b,c   Batalla, Ramon J ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^c Laboratory of Plant Ecology and Forest Botany   (Spain)

^d CATALAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH ICRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Hierarchical theory; Pyrenean river; Scale interactions; Sedimentation

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INVERTEBRATE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

PYRENEES;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84880697676     PISSN: 00759511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.limno.2013.04.005     Document Type: Article

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