Conservation and monitoring of pond biodiversity1: Introduction

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 535-540

  Oertli, Beat ^a   Biggs, Jeremy ^b   Céréghino, Régis ^c   Grillas, Patrick ^d   Joly, Pierre ^e   Lachavanne, Jean Bernard ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^b OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^d STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE LA TOUR DU VALAT   (France)

^e UMR5023 Laboratoire d'Ecologie des Hydrosystèmes Naturels et Anthropisés   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; POND;

EID: 28144431803     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.752     Document Type: Conference Paper

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