Tracing recovery from acidification in the Western Norwegian Nausta Watershed

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Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 235-239

  Halvorsen, Godtfred A ^a   Heegaard, Einar ^a   Fjellheim, Arne ^a,b   Raddum, Gunnar G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Stavanger Museum   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; ACIDITY; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

NORWAY;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038576346     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-32.3.235     Document Type: Article

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