What do qualitative rapid assessment collections of macroinvertebrates represent? A comparison with extensive

C L Gillies1, G C Hose, E Turak

  • 1Department of Environmental Sciences and Institute for Water and Environmental Resource Management, University of Technology Sydney, P.O. Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia.

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