Environmental context and magnitude of disturbance influence trait-mediated community responses to wastewater in streams

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 3923-3939

  Burdon, Francis J ^a   Reyes, Marta ^a   Alder, Alfredo C ^a   Joss, Adriano ^a   Ort, Christoph ^a   Räsänen, Katja ^a,b   Jokela, Jukka ^a,b   Eggen, Rik I L ^a,b   Stamm, Christian ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Land use; macroinvertebrates; multiple stressors; pollution; resistance; sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969949605     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2165     Document Type: Article

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