Macroinvertebrate community responses to duration, intensity and timing of annual dry events in intermittent forested and pasture streams

Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 395-414

  Storey, Richard ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Drought; Drying; Global warming; Invertebrates; Temporary stream; Water abstraction

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; BENTHOS; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL WARMING; MACROINVERTEBRATE; PASTURE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; REFUGE; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM; TAXONOMY;

NEW ZEALAND;

DIPTERA; EPHEMEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; PLECOPTERA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 84961217800     PISSN: 10151621     EISSN: 14209055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00027-015-0443-2     Document Type: Article

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