Assessment of damage to fish populations in Norwegian lakes due to acidification

Ambio

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 112-117

  Hesthagen, Trygve ^a   Sevaldrud, Iver H ^b   Berger, Hans M ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; FISH; LAKE POLLUTION; POPULATION DECLINE;

NORWAY;

EID: 0032912130     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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44. This study is based on data from the projects Norwegian Monitoring Programme for Long-Range Transported Air Pollutants, which was launched in 1980 when the SNSF project ended, and Nature Tolerance Levels. Both projects were funded by the Directorate for Nature Management. We thank Lars Kvenild, Hilde G. Olsen, Laila Saksgård and Gunnel Østborg for technical assistance, Dr. Hugh M. Allen for correcting the English, Dr. Steinar Engen for valuable advice in estimating confidence limits of the number of lost and affected fish populations, and Dr. Joan P. Baker, Dr. Terry A. Haines, Dr. Martti Rask and two anonymous referees for valuable suggestions for improving the paper.
45. First submitted 4 March 1997. Accepted for publication after revision 22 June 1998.