High mountain lakes: Extreme habitats and witnesses of environmental changes

Limnetica

Volumn 25, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 551-584

  Catalan, Jordi ^a,b   Camarero, Lluís ^a,b   Felip, Marisol ^b   Pla, Sergi ^c   Ventura, Marc ^d   Buchaca, Teresa ^d   Bartumeus, Frederic ^a,b   De Mendoza, Guillermo ^a,b   Miró, Alexandre ^b   Casamayor, Emilio O ^a,b   Medina Sánchez, Juan Manuel ^a,b,e   Bacardit, Montserrat ^a,b   Altuna, Maddi ^a,b   Bartrons, Mireia ^a,b   De Quijano, Daniel Díaz ^a,b  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alpine lakes; Catchment lake relationships; Climate change; Extreme habitats; Long range atmospheric pollution

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HABITAT; MOUNTAIN STREAM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

BARCELONA [CATALONIA]; CATALONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 33747046069     PISSN: 02138409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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