Diatoms as indicators of river quality in the Nepalese Middle Hills with consideration of the effects of habitat-specific sampling

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 475-486

  Jüttner, Ingrid ^a,b   Rothfritz, Heike ^a   Ormerod, S J ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DIATOM; HABITAT QUALITY; ORGANIC POLLUTION;

NEPAL, ARUN VALLEY; NEPAL, KATHMANDU VALLEY;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 0030304596     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1996.00101.x     Document Type: Article

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