Can biological traits of stream invertebrates help disentangle the effects of multiple stressors in an agricultural catchment?

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2431-2446

  Lange, Katharina ^a   Townsend, Colin R ^a   Matthaei, Christoph D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Additive and non additive; Agricultural land use; Biological traits; Functional diversity; Functional indicators; Multiple stressors; Unimodal

Indexed keywords

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EID: 84911963461     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12437     Document Type: Article

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