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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"serial discontinuity"”.
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Analyzing longitudinal patterns of river metabolism in five distinct rivers
The River Continuum and Serial Discontinuity Concepts are two common frameworks or theories to describe river ecosystem structure and function. While these concepts help explain how rivers should behave, the reality is that aquatic ecosystems are being changed and degraded due to dams which …
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Fish Community Assembly in the Forest River, North Dakota, and Resolution of Campostoma Species Presence
… upstream sites than to the other groups. The serial discontinuity concept explains this finding, but the process domains concept does not. When analyzed at the level III ecoregion scale, the site groupings were closely related to ecoregions. Still, the sites that were directly below a dam were …
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The effect of regulation by two impoundments on an acid, blackwater, Cape mountain stream
… the River Continuum Concept (RCC) and the Serial Discontinuity Concept (SOC), required investigation as to their applicability to entire river systems in the Southern Hemisphere. The RCC hypothesises that biological communities are structured in a predictable fashion from the source to the …