Spatial relationships between land-use, habitat, water quality and lotic macroinvertebrates in two Swiss catchments

Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 375-392

  Robinson, C T ^a,b   Schuwirth, N ^c   Baumgartner, S ^a,b   Stamm, C ^c  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Department of Systems Analysis and Modeling Eawag ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aquatic insects; Micropollutants; Nutrients; Physico chemical; Urban stream

Indexed keywords

ALGA; AQUATIC ORGANISM; BIOMASS; CATCHMENT; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LAND USE CHANGE; LOTIC ENVIRONMENT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TAXONOMY; WATER QUALITY;

SWISS PLATEAU; SWITZERLAND;

ALGAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; COLEOPTERA; EPHEMEROPTERA; GASTROPODA; HEXAPODA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 84902377011     PISSN: 10151621     EISSN: 14209055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00027-014-0341-z     Document Type: Article

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