Relationships between stream macroinvertebrate communities and new flood-based indices of glacial influence

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1916-1925

  Cauvy Fraunié, Sophie ^a,b,c   Espinosa, Rodrigo ^b   Andino, Patricio ^b   Dangles, Olivier ^a,b,c   Jacobsen, Dean ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^c UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Bolivia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Benthic macroinvertebrates; Daily glacial floods; Glacierised catchments; Tropical mountains; Wavelet analyses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904057572     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12395     Document Type: Article

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