A Littoral Fauna Index for assessing the impact of lakeshore alterations in Alpine lakes

Ecohydrology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 703-716

  Urbanič, Gorazd ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b Institute for Water of the Republic of Slovenia   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Benthic invertebrates; Bioassessment; Hydromorphology; LMT sampling; Reference conditions; Taxonomic resolution

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; LINEAR MATRIX INEQUALITIES;

BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES; BIOASSESSMENT; HYDROMORPHOLOGY; REFERENCE CONDITION; TAXONOMIC RESOLUTION;

LAKES;

BENTHOS; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; INVERTEBRATE; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; MICROHABITAT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84897474413     PISSN: 19360584     EISSN: 19360592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eco.1392     Document Type: Article

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