Macroinvertebrate assemblages of natural springs along an altitudinal gradient in the Bernese Alps, Switzerland

Annales de Limnologie

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 237-247

  Wigger, Fabian William ^a   Schmidlin, Lara ^a   Nagel, Peter ^a   Von Fumetti, Stefanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alpine springs; Climate change; Macroinvertebrate assemblages; Water temperature

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL CHANGE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPRING (SEASON); TRANSITION ZONE; WATER TEMPERATURE;

BERNESE ALPS; CENTRAL ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 84942748400     PISSN: 00034088     EISSN: 2100000X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/limn/2015018     Document Type: Article

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