Integrated environmental quality assessment of the Kızılırmak River and its coastal environment;Integrated Environmental Quality Assessment of the Kızılırmak River and its Coastal Environment

Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 453-462

  Bakan, Gülfem ^a   Özkoç, Hülya Böke ^a   Tülek, Sevtap ^a   Cüce, Hüseyin ^a  

^a ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Environmental quality assessment; Ki dotless zi dotless li dotless rmak; Sediment quality index; Trophic state index; Water quality index

Indexed keywords

ALGAE;

EID: 78751616648     PISSN: 13032712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4194/trjfas.2010.0403     Document Type: Article

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