Qualitative models to predict impacts of human interventions in a wetland ecosystem

Web Ecology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 56-69

  Loiselle, Steven ^a   Hull, Vincent ^b   Permingeat, Enrique ^c   Falcucci, Margherita ^b   Rossi, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b Laboratorio Centrale di Idrobiologia   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MISIONES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; WETLAND; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MONITORING; NATURAL RESOURCE; PREDICTION;

ARGENTINA; CORRIENTES PROVINCE; ESTEROS DEL IBERA; SOUTH AMERICA;

ICHTHYOFAUNA;

EID: 2442647665     PISSN: 13991183     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/we-3-56-2002     Document Type: Article

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