What else do managers need to know about warming rivers? A United Kingdom perspective

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 55-64

  Orr, Harriet G ^a   Johnson, Matthew F ^b   Wilby, Robert L ^c   Hatton Ellis, Tristan ^d   Broadmeadow, Samantha ^e  

^a ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Natural Resources Wales ^*  (United Kingdom)

^e FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84932632102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20491948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/WAT2.1062     Document Type: Article

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