Understanding water column and streambed thermal refugia for endangered mussels in the Delaware River

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 11423-11431

  Briggs, Martin A ^a   Voytek, Emily B ^a   Day Lewis, Frederick D ^a   Rosenberry, Donald O ^a   Lane, John W ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE SENSOR; GROUND WATER DISCHARGE; GROUND WATER INFLOW; GROUNDWATER PLUMES; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; INFRARED IMAGERY; TEMPERATURE DYNAMICS; THERMAL DYNAMICS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

GROUNDWATER;

GROUND WATER;

BIVALVE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HEAT TRANSFER; NICHE; REFUGIUM; RIVER DISCHARGE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; UPWELLING; WATER COLUMN;

ARTICLE; INFRARED RADIATION; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; PLUME; RIVER; UNITED STATES;

DELAWARE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; DELAWARE; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GEOGRAPHY; GROUNDWATER; PENNSYLVANIA; RIVERS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 84886879524     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es4018893     Document Type: Article

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