Ecohydraulics for River Management: Can Mesoscale Lotic Macroinvertebrate Data Inform Macroscale Ecosystem Assessment?

Ecohydraulics: An Integrated Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 357-374

  Orlofske, Jessica M ^a   Monk, Wendy A ^a   Baird, Donald J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOHYDRAULICS; ECOSYSTEM ASSESSMENT; MACRO SCALE; MACROINVERTEBRATES; MESOSCALE; RIVER MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH; HYDRAULIC EFFECT; TRAIT VARIATION;

ECOSYSTEMS; RIVERS;

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84906681967     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118526576.ch21     Document Type: Chapter

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