Seasonality of macrophyte dominance in flood-pulsed lakes of the Danube Delta

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 506-509, Issue , 2003, Pages 651-656

  Covaliov, Silviu ^a   Van Geest, Gerben ^b   Hanganu, Jenica ^a   Hulea, Orieta ^a   Török, Liliana ^a   Coops, Hugo ^c  

^a Danube Delta National Institute   (Romania)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c INST INLAND WATER MGMT WASTE W   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hydrological connectivity; Macrophyte dominated lakes; Submerged vegetation

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; LAKES; PLANTS (BOTANY); RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; VEGETATION; WATER;

MACROPHYTES; REEDBED COMPLEXES;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONNECTIVITY; DOMINANCE; HYDROLOGY; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MACROPHYTE; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEASONALITY;

DANUBE DELTA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CERATOPHYLLUM; CERATOPHYLLUM DEMERSUM; CYANOBACTERIA; INVERTEBRATA; NITELLOPSIS OBTUSA; POTAMOGETON;

EID: 0346801820     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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