Intermittent rivers: A challenge for freshwater ecology

BioScience

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 229-235

  Datry, Thibault ^a   Larned, Scott T ^b   Tockner, Klement ^c  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

biodiversity; biogeochemistry; flow cessation; fragmentation; habitat mosaics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898930331     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: 15253244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/bit027     Document Type: Review

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