Interactive effects of urban stormwater drainage, land clearance, and flow regime on stream macroinvertebrate assemblages across a large metropolitan region

Freshwater Science

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 324-339

  Walsh, Christopher J ^a   Webb, J Angus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attenuated forest cover; Attenuated imperviousness; BRT; Land use model; Richness

Indexed keywords

ANTECEDENT CONDITIONS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DRAINAGE WATER; FOREST COVER; LAND USE; LAND USE CHANGE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; METROPOLITAN AREA; PREDICTION; RUNOFF; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAMWATER; URBAN AREA;

AUSTRALIA; MELBOURNE; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84960843570     PISSN: 21619549     EISSN: 21619565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/685105     Document Type: Conference Paper

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