Aquatic macrophytes as bioindicators of water chemistry in nutrient rich backwaters along the Upper-Tisza river (in Hungary)

Phytocoenologia

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 287-293

  Lukács, Balázs A ^a   Dévai, György ^a   Tóthmérész, Béla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Detrended canonical correspondence analysis; Eutrophic backwaters; Macrophytes; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

BACKWATER; BIOINDICATOR; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; MACROPHYTE; PHYTOSOCIOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; REEDBED; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; TWINSPAN; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION; VULNERABILITY; WATER CHEMISTRY;

HUNGARY; TISZA RIVER;

CERATOPHYLLUM DEMERSUM; POTAMOGETON LUCENS;

EID: 74349124259     PISSN: 0340269X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0340-269X/2009/0039-0287     Document Type: Article

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