Year
2009
Abstract
Reliable lotic ecological monitoring requires knowledge of river typology, environmental factors, the effect of stressors known here as 'pressures' and appropriate indicators of anthropogenically induced change. We sampled benthic macroinvertebrate, fish, bird and macrophyte communities along an intermittent Mediterranean river and analysed community structure (relative abundance) and function (metrics) relative to environmental and pressure gradients in order to identify suitable indicator group (s) for future monitoring.
Authors
Hughes S., Santos J., Ferreira M., R C. & Mendes A.
Publisher
Freshwater Biology, 54, 2383-2400.
Source type
Journal