Frontiers in real-time ecohydrology - a paradigm shift in understanding complex environmental systems

Ecohydrology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 529-537

  Krause, Stefan ^a   Lewandowski, Jörg ^b   Dahm, Clifford N ^c   Tockner, Klement ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Ecohydrology; High frequency; High resolution; Nonlinear; Pulsing; Real time; Sensor networks; Spatial temporal variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931825813     PISSN: 19360584     EISSN: 19360592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eco.1646     Document Type: Note

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