Indicators and criteria to assess ecological status of the large shallow temperate polymictic lakes Peipsi (Estonia/Russia) and Võrtsjärv (Estonia)

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 67-80

  Nõges, Peeter ^a,b   Nõges, Tiina ^a  

^a ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

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