Fuzzy Modeling of Interactions among Environmental Stressors in the Ecosystem of Lake Koronia, Greece

Environmental Management

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 624-638

  Ioannidou, Irene A ^a   Paraskevopoulos, Stephanos ^a   Tzionas, Panagiotis ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ecosystem risk assessment; Fuzzy inference; Stressors interactions

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FUZZY SETS; LAKES; PESTICIDE EFFECTS; PH EFFECTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

NITRATE;

ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; MODELING; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONDUCTANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GREECE; HYPOTHESIS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MODEL; PARAMETER; PH; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SEA FOOD; STRESS; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; FUZZY LOGIC; GREECE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER SUPPLY;

CENTRAL MACEDONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; LAKE KORONIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; THESSALONIKI;

THESSALONIKI;

EID: 1642581552     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-003-0001-x     Document Type: Article

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