Sensitivity of ancient Lake Ohrid to local anthropogenic impacts and global warming

Journal of Great Lakes Research

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 158-179

  Matzinger, Andreas ^a   Spirkovski, Zoran ^b   Patceva, Suzana ^b   Wüest, Alfred ^a  

^a Limnological Research Center   (Switzerland)

^b Hydrobiological Institute   (Macedonia)

Author keywords

Ancient lake; Aquatic ecosystem; Endemism; Eutrophication; Global warming; Lake Ohrid; Water abstraction

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EUTROPHICATION; EVALUATION; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT CONVECTION; ORGANIC MINERALS; PHOSPHORUS; PLANTS (BOTANY); WATER ABSORPTION;

ANCIENT LAKE; ANOXIA; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; ENDEMIC COMMUNITIES; ENDEMISM; LAKE OHRID; WATER ABSTRACTION;

LAKES;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONVECTION; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EUTROPHICATION; FAUNA; GLOBAL WARMING; LAKE; MINERALIZATION; PHOSPHORUS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; LAKE OHRID; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33645746374     PISSN: 03801330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3394/0380-1330(2006)32[158:SOALOT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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