Short-term impact of forest harvesting on water quality and zooplankton communities in oligotrophic headwater lakes of the eastern Canadian Boreal shield

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 323-337

  Winkler, Gesche ^a,b   Leclerc, Véronique ^a   Sirois, Pascal ^a   Archambault, Philippe ^b   Bérubé, Pierre ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À CHICOUTIMI   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE LA MER DE RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^c MINISTÈRE DES RESSOURCES NATURELLES ET DE LA FAUNE   (Canada)

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