Identification of the self-purification stretches of the Pinios River, Central Greece

Mediterranean Marine Science

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 19-32

  Chatzinikolaou, Y ^a,b   Lazaridou, M ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Benthic macroinvertebrates; Pinios (Thessaly); Self purification

Indexed keywords

EID: 69749088507     PISSN: 1108393X     EISSN: 17916763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12681/mms.151     Document Type: Article

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