A sediment-specific family-level biomonitoring tool to identify the impacts of fine sediment in temperate rivers and streams

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 70, Issue , 2016, Pages 151-165

  Turley, Matt D ^a   Bilotta, Gary S ^a   Chadd, Richard P ^b   Extence, Chris A ^b   Brazier, Richard E ^c   Burnside, Niall G ^a   Pickwell, Alex G G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^b ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Biotic index; Deposited fine sediments; Macroinvertebrates; Rivers; Sedimentation; Streams

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ECOSYSTEMS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; RIVERS; SEDIMENTATION; STATISTICAL TESTS;

BIOMONITORING; BIOTIC INDEX; FINE SEDIMENTS; MACROINVERTEBRATES; STREAMS;

SEDIMENTS;

ABIOTIC FACTOR; BIODEGRADATION; BIOMONITORING; BIOTA; DEPOSITION; MACROINVERTEBRATE; RIVER; SEDIMENTATION; STREAM; WATER QUALITY;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84976370825     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.05.040     Document Type: Article

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