Impacts of land use at the catchment scale constrain the habitat benefits of stream riparian buffers

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2310-2324

  Wahl, Colin M ^a   Neils, Allison ^a   Hooper, David ^a  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest; Invertebrates; Land use; Restoration; Riparian buffer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884919912     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12211     Document Type: Article

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