Response of biota to land use changes and water quality degradation in two medium-sized river basins in southwestern Greece

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1231-1238

  Theodoropoulos, Christos ^a   Iliopoulou Georgudaki, Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

BBI; Ecological quality; HES; Macroinvertebrates; Southwestern Greece

Indexed keywords

BBI; ECOLOGICAL QUALITY; HES; MACROINVERTEBRATES; SOUTHWESTERN GREECE;

AGRICULTURE; DEGRADATION; DETOXIFICATION; ECOLOGY; EFFLUENTS; LAND USE; VEGETATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

RIVERS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOTIC FACTOR; DAM CONSTRUCTION; DETOXIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; LAND USE CHANGE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; RIVER BASIN; URBANIZATION; WATER QUALITY;

GREECE;

EID: 77957886585     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2010.04.010     Document Type: Article

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