Spatial patterns of submerged macrophytes and heavy metals in the hypertrophic, contaminated, shallow reservoir Lake Qattieneh/Syria

Limnologica

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 54-60

  Hassan, Siba ^a   Schmieder, Klaus ^a   Böcker, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heavy metals; Hypertrophy; Lake Qattieneh; Macrophytes; Sediments

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOINDICATOR; HEAVY METAL; HYPERTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; LAKE POLLUTION; MACROPHYTE; POLLUTION MONITORING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBMERGED VEGETATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; HIMS; LAKE QATTINAH; MIDDLE EAST; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC;

CERATOPHYLLUM DEMERSUM; MYRIOPHYLLUM SPICATUM; PECTINATUS; POTAMOGETON LUCENS; POTAMOGETON PECTINATUS; RANUNCULACEAE; RANUNCULUS TRICHOPHYLLUS;

EID: 70450221713     PISSN: 00759511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.limno.2009.01.002     Document Type: Article

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