The nature of biodiversity in hypogean waters and how it is endangered

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1319-1338

  Sket, Boris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Endangerment; Hypogean waters; Stygobios

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; BIODIVERSITY; CAVE SYSTEM;

SLOVENIA;

EID: 0032696629     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008916601121     Document Type: Article

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