Assessment of a Mediterranean shallow lentic ecosystem (Lake Pamvotis, Greece) using benthic community diversity: Response to environmental parameters

Limnologica

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 269-278

  Kagalou, Ifigenia ^a   Economidis, Georgios ^b   Leonardos, Ioannis ^a   Papaloukas, Constantinos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b Department of Fisheries Prefecture of Thessaloniki ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Diversity; Lentic ecosystems; Macroinvertebrates; Shallow lake

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FAUNA; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; LENTIC ENVIRONMENT; LOTIC ENVIRONMENT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; POPULATION DENSITY; SHALLOW WATER; WATER QUALITY;

EPIRUS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; IOANNINA; LAKE PAMVOTIS; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ANNELIDA; CHAOBORUS FLAVICANS; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS PLUMOSUS; DIPTERA; POTAMOTHRIX BAVARICUS; POTAMOTHRIX HAMMONIENSIS;

EID: 33751200941     PISSN: 00759511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.limno.2006.08.002     Document Type: Article

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