Stream biodiversity is disproportionately lost to urbanization when flow permanence declines: Evidence from southwestern North America

Freshwater Science

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 340-352

  King, Ryan S ^a   Scoggins, Mateo ^b   Porras, Abel ^b  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological thresholds; Environmental flows; Impervious cover; Intermittent streams; Urban streams

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMONITORING; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DATA ASSIMILATION; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; LOW FLOW; MACROINVERTEBRATE; METROPOLITAN AREA; POLLUTION TOLERANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM; URBAN GROWTH; URBANIZATION;

AUSTIN; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EPHEMEROPTERA; PLECOPTERA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 84960941485     PISSN: 21619549     EISSN: 21619565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/684943     Document Type: Conference Paper

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