Is drift the primary process promoting the resilience of river invertebrate communities? A manipulative field experiment in an intermittent alluvial river

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1276-1292

  Vander Vorste, Ross ^a   Malard, Florian ^b   Datry, Thibault ^a  

^a UR MALY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

aerial oviposition; braided river; hyporheic zone; resistance forms; stream drying

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938778544     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12658     Document Type: Article

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