A long-term record of human impacts on an urban ecosystem in the sediments of Toolonlahti Bay in Helsinki, Finland

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 326-337

  Tikkanen, Matti ^a   Korhola, Atte ^a   Seppä, Heikki ^a   Virkanen, Juhani ^a  

^a Department of Geography   (Finland)

Author keywords

Diatoms; Ecosystem disturbance; Ecosystem recovery; Geochemistry; Urbanization; Vegetation history; Water pollution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIATOM; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FINLAND; SEDIMENT; URBANIZATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 0031453489     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S037689299700043X     Document Type: Article

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