Macroinvertebrates. composition, life histories and production

Tropical Stream Ecology

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 65-105

  Jacobsen, Dean ^a   Cressa, Claudia ^b   Mathooko, Jude M ^c   Dudgeon, David ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Venezuela)

^c EGERTON UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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