Ecological aspects of the restoration strategy for a river-floodplain system on the Danube River in Austria

Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 321-329

  Tockner, Klement ^a,b   Schiemer, Fritz ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Danube; Ecological connectivity; Floodplain; River restoration

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGICAL CONNECTIVITY; FLOODPLAIN; RIVER RESTORATION;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 0031402737     PISSN: 09607447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2997746     Document Type: Article

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