Assessment of the ecological status of streams in two Carpathian subregions

International Review of Hydrobiology

Volumn 92, Issue 4-5, 2007, Pages 564-581

  Krno, Il'ja ^a   Šporka, Ferdinand ^b   Pastuchová, Zuzana ^b   Derka, Tomáš ^a   Čiamporová Zaťovičová, Zuzana ^b   Bulánková, Eva ^a   Hamerlík, Ladislav ^b   Illéšová, Daniela ^b  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Environmental variables; Macroinvertebrates; Metrics; Multimetric index; Organic pollution; Slovakia

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEMS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT QUALITY; HERB; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; MACROINVERTEBRATE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 34548481326     PISSN: 14342944     EISSN: 15222632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iroh.200610996     Document Type: Article

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