Macroinvertebrate community responses to hydrological controls and groundwater abstraction effects across intermittent and perennial headwater streams

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 610-611, Issue , 2018, Pages 1514-1526

  White, James C ^a   House, Andy ^b   Punchard, Neil ^c   Hannah, David M ^d   Wilding, Nicholas A ^e   Wood, Paul J ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b WESSEX WATER   (United Kingdom)

^c BROADS AUTHORITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drying; Flow alteration; Headwater streams; Invertebrate; Water extraction

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CONSERVATION; DRYING; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GROUNDWATER;

FLOW ALTERATION; GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTION; HEADWATER STREAM; HYDROLOGICAL MODIFICATIONS; INVERTEBRATE; MACROINVERTEBRATE ASSEMBLAGE; MACROINVERTEBRATE COMMUNITY; WATER EXTRACTION;

RIVERS;

GROUND WATER;

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTION; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HEADWATER; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; EPHEMEROPTERA; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEADWATER STREAM; HYDROLOGY; LIMNEPHILUS BIPUNCTATUS; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; PARALETOPHLEBIA WERNERI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TRICHOPTERA; UNITED KINGDOM; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INVERTEBRATE; PHYSIOLOGY; RIVER; WATER FLOW;

AVON RIVER [ENGLAND]; ENGLAND; HAMPSHIRE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EPHEMEROPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; LIMNEPHILUS BIPUNCTATUS; TRICHOPTERA;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; INVERTEBRATES; RIVERS; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 85021746004     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.06.081     Document Type: Article

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