Flow-Generated Disturbances and Ecological Responses: Floods and Droughts

Hydroecology and Ecohydrology: Past, Present and Future

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 75-92

  Lake, Philip S ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Desiccation resistant life stages and high temperature and low oxygen tolerance; Extreme low flows average recurrence interval; Flow generated disturbances effects; Flowing waters ecology; Riverine ecosystems; Running waters hydrology and ecology; Sedimentation and exotic species; Spatial and temporal resistance; Spatial extent and predictability; Surficial benthic invertebrates

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889272676     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470010198.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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