A biological survey of high mountain and high latitude lakes across Europe: Aims, sampling strategy, methods and main achievements

Advances in Limnology

Volumn 62, Issue , 2009, Pages 3-16

  Kernan, Martin ^a   Catalan, Jordi ^b   Ventura, Marc ^b,c   Curtis, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

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EID: 70449579726     PISSN: 1612166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1127/advlim/62/2009/3     Document Type: Review

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