Assessing drivers of benthic macroinvertebrate community structure in African highland streams: An exploration using multivariate analysis.

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Science of the Total Environment

• Publication date

  2017-12-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.06.023PMID 28605853
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