Fish fauna recovery in a newly re-flooded Mediterranean coastal lagoon

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 505-515

  Koutrakis, Emmanuil ^a   Sylaios, Georgios ^b   Kamidis, Nikolaos ^a   Markou, Dimitrios ^a   Sapounidis, Argyris ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

coastal lagoons; Drana Lagoon; Evros River Delta; fish fauna; Northern Greece; restoration; water quality

Indexed keywords

COASTAL LAGOON; FAUNA; FISH; JUVENILE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES CONCEPT; TIDAL MODELING; WATER FLOW; WATER QUALITY; WETLAND MANAGEMENT;

DRANA LAGOON; EASTERN MACEDONIA AND THRACE; EURASIA; EUROPE; EVROS; EVROS DELTA; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ATHERINA BOYERI; MUGILIDAE; POMATOSCHISTUS MARMORATUS;

EID: 67649583833     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2009.04.032     Document Type: Article

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