Lake Brienz Project: An interdisciplinary catchment-to-lake study

Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 173-178

  Wüest, Alfred ^a,b   Zeh, Markus ^c   Ackerman, Josef D ^d  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Laboratory for Water and Soil Protection of the Canton of Bern (GBL)   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dams and reservoirs; Downstream effects; Fish decline; Hydropower; Lake Brienz; Oligotrophic and turbid lakes

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447117679     PISSN: 10151621     EISSN: 14209055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00027-007-0016-0     Document Type: Editorial

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