Diversity and distribution of benthic and hyporheic fauna in different stream types on an alpine glacial floodplain

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 751, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 73-87

  Lencioni, Valeria ^a   Spitale, Daniel ^a  

^a MUSE Museo delle Scienze   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alps; Functional diversity; Glacier fed streams; Spatial connectivity; Temporal variations; Trophic sink

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939984220     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-014-2172-2     Document Type: Article

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