Ecohydrological status of Lake Tana - A shallow highland lake in the Blue Nile (Abbay) basin in Ethiopia: Review

Ecohydrology and Hydrobiology

Volumn 10, Issue 2-4, 2010, Pages 109-122

  Ligdi, Etafa Emama ^a   Kahloun, Mohssine El ^b   Meire, Patrick ^b  

^a Water Resources and Watershed Management   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ecosystem functions; FRIEND Nile II; Knowledge gap; Lake level fuctuations; Point source pollution; Sediment loads

Indexed keywords

ECOHYDROLOGY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FRESHWATER; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LAKE LEVEL; LAKE WATER; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; SUSTAINABILITY; WATER LEVEL; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

BLUE NILE BASIN; ETHIOPIA; LAKE TANA; NILE BASIN;

EID: 79960471431     PISSN: 16423593     EISSN: 20803397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10104-011-0021-8     Document Type: Article

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