Recovery and Nonrecovery of Freshwater Food Webs from the Effects of Acidification

Advances in Ecological Research

Volumn 55, Issue , 2016, Pages 475-534

  Gray, C ^a,b   Hildrew, A G ^b,c   Lu, X ^d   Ma, A ^d   McElroy, D ^e   Monteith, D ^f   O'Gorman, E ^a   Shilland, E ^g   Woodward, G ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c FRESHWATER BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^f CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communities; Lakes and streams; Monitoring; Networks; Redundancy; Restoration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994479839     PISSN: 00652504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/bs.aecr.2016.08.009     Document Type: Chapter

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