Disturbance and temporal variability in invertebrate assemblages in two South African rivers

Includes abstract. === This thesis presents an examination of the relationship between floods as disturbances, the disturbance regime and the temporal dynamics of invertebrate assemblages, over the short term and at intra- and inter-annual time scales in the Molenaars and Berg Rivers in the Western...

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Main Author: Ractliffe, Sylvia Georgiana
Other Authors: King, J M
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12522