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Surface Zoobenthos

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Ecology of a Glacial Flood Plain

Part of the book series: Aquatic Ecology Series ((AQEC,volume 1))

Abstract

Based on their local water sources and temperature regimes, three principal types of streams, each with distinctive zoobenthic assemblages, occur in alpine environments (Ward, 1994):

  • — kryal stream segments fed by glacial meltwater

  • — krenal segments fed by ground water

  • — rhithral segments dominated by seasonal snowmelt/rainfall

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  1. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland

    J. V. Ward (former Head of Limnology) (former Head of Limnology)

  2. Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (EAWAG), Dübendorf, Switzerland

    J. V. Ward (former Head of Limnology) (former Head of Limnology)

  3. Department of Limnology, Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (EAWAG), Dübendorf, Switzerland

    U. Uehlinger

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Burgherr, P., Klein, B., Robinson, C.T., Tockner, K. (2003). Surface Zoobenthos. In: Ward, J.V., Uehlinger, U. (eds) Ecology of a Glacial Flood Plain. Aquatic Ecology Series, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0181-5_10

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