Ecoregions in the southern balkans: Should their boundaries be revised?

Environmental Management

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 682-697

  Zogaris, Stamatis ^a,b   Economou, Alcibiades N ^a   Dimopoulos, Panayotis ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Balkans; Conservation; Ecological assessment; Ecoregions; Ichthyogeography; WFD

Indexed keywords

BALKANS; ECOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT; ECOREGIONS; ICHTHYOGEOGRAPHY; WFD;

WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHEDS;

WATER CONSERVATION;

BIOGEOGRAPHY; BOUNDARY; ECOREGION; MAPPING; NATURE CONSERVATION; RIVER BASIN; WATERSHED;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; GREECE;

BALKANS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 62549155724     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-008-9243-y     Document Type: Article

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