Changes in the water quality of Lake Geneva indicated by submerged macrophytes

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 457-466

  Lehmann, Anthony ^a   Lachavanne, Jean Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bioindicator; Eutrophication; Geographic information system; Macrophyte; Saprobity

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; MACROPHYTE; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; WATER QUALITY;

SWITZERLAND;

CHARA; ELODEA CANADENSIS; ELODEA NUTTALLII; MYRIOPHYLLUM SPICATUM; PECTINATUS; POTAMOGETON CRISPUS; POTAMOGETON LUCENS; POTAMOGETON PERFOLIATUS; POTAMOGETON PUSILLUS; STUCKENIA PECTINATUS; ZANNICHELLIA PALUSTRIS;

EID: 0032706948     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1999.00489.x     Document Type: Article

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