Longitudinal impacts of anthropogenic pressures on benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages in a large transboundary Mediterranean river during the low flow period

Acta Hydrochimica et Hydrobiologica

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 453-463

  Chatzinikolaou, Yorgos ^a   Dakos, Vasilis ^a   Lazaridou, Maria ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Axios Vardar; Biomonitoring; Ecological integrity; River habitat survey; Water Framework Directive

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; RIVERS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOMONITORING; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; MACROBENTHOS; MACROINVERTEBRATE; ZOOBENTHOS;

AXIOS RIVER; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33750576837     PISSN: 03234320     EISSN: 1521401X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aheh.200500644     Document Type: Article

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