Seasonal variation of water chemical gradients in three boreal fens

Annales Botanici Fennici

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 345-355

  Tahvanainen, Teemu ^a   Sallantaus, Tapani ^b   Heikkilä, Raimo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b Finland's Environmental Administration   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aapa mire; Ecology; Poor rich gradient; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344514887     PISSN: 00033847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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