Leaf packs in impaired streams: The influence of leaf type and environmental gradients on breakdown rate and invertebrate assemblage composition

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 224, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Cabrini, Riccardo ^a   Canobbio, Sergio ^a   Sartori, Laura ^a   Fornaroli, Riccardo ^a   Mezzanotte, Valeria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Environmental gradients; Functional traits; Leaf packs; Macroinvertebrates

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883446805     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-013-1697-8     Document Type: Article

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