Assessing environmental degradation of montane riparian zones in Greece

Journal of Environmental Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 719-726

  Zogaris, Stamatis ^a,b   Chatzinikolaou, Yorgos ^a   Dimopoulos, Panayotis ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Degradation; Ecological assessment; Indicators; Riparian zone; Woodlands

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; RIPARIAN FOREST; RIPARIAN ZONE; STREAM; WOODLAND;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FLOODPLAIN; GRAZING; GREECE; LAND USE; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES INVASION; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 70349556610     PISSN: 02548704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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