High variability is a defining component of mediterranean-climate rivers and their biota

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Cid, Núria ^a   Bonada, Núria ^a   Carlson, Stephanie M ^b   Grantham, Theodore E ^b   Gasith, Avital ^c   Resh, Vincent H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Conservation; Fish; Inter annual variability; Macroinvertebrates; Management; Mediterranean streams and rivers; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; DROUGHT; FISH; MANAGEMENT; RAIN; RIVERS;

BIOMONITORING; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MACROINVERTEBRATES; MEDITERRANEAN STREAMS; SEASONALITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMONITORING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATIC REGION; FISH; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; VULNERABILITY;

AUSTRALIA; CALIFORNIA; CHILE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTH AFRICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85011269799     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w9010052     Document Type: Review

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