Epilithic diatoms from rheocrene springs in the eastern alps (Vorarlberg, Austria)

Diatom Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-66

  Gesierich, Doris ^a   Kofler, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIATOM; ECOREGION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EPILITHON; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT TYPE; NITRATE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PH; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; RED LIST; RIVER; SAMPLING; SPRING WATER; TAXONOMY;

ALPS; AUSTRIA; EASTERN ALPS; VORARLBERG;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTA; DIADESMIS GALLICA; DIATOMA HIEMALE; GOMPHONEMA; MICROCEPHALA; NAVICULA; PINNULARIA BOREALIS; RHOPALODIA GIBBA;

EID: 77953045525     PISSN: 0269249X     EISSN: 21598347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0269249X.2010.9705828     Document Type: Article

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