The River Gelså restoration revisited: Habitat specific assemblages and persistence of the macroinvertebrate community over an 11-year period

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 66, Issue , 2014, Pages 150-157

  Friberg, N ^a   Baattrup Pedersen, A ^a   Kristensen, E A ^a   Kronvang, B ^a   Larsen, S E ^a   Pedersen, M L ^b   Skriver, J ^a   Thodsen, H ^a   Wiberg Larsen, P ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Community persistence; Diversity; Habitat; Macroinvertebrates; River restoration

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; EUTROPHICATION; RESTORATION; RIVER POLLUTION;

COMMUNITY PERSISTENCE; DIVERSITY; HABITAT; MACROINVERTEBRATES; RIVER RESTORATION;

RIVERS;

EUTROPHICATION; HABITAT RESTORATION; HABITAT TYPE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MEANDER; PERSISTENCE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RIVER CHANNEL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBSTRATE; TIME SERIES;

DENMARK; GELSA RIVER; SYDDANMARK;

EID: 84900524837     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2013.09.069     Document Type: Article

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