Diversity patterns of fauna in dripping water of caves from Transylvania

Annales de Limnologie

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 185-197

  Meleg, Ioana N ^a   Moldovan, Oana T ^a   Iepure, Sanda ^a   Fiers, Frank ^b   Brad, Traian ^a  

^a EMIL RACOVI INSTITUTE OF SPELEOLOGY   (Romania)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Karst unsaturated zone; P durea Craiului Mountains; Romania

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; CAVE; CRUSTACEAN; ENDEMIC SPECIES; HABITAT TYPE; HETEROGENEITY; HYDROGRAPH; KARST; MICROHABITAT; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLLUTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VADOSE ZONE; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ROMANIA; TRANSYLVANIA;

CRUSTACEA;

EID: 79961081146     PISSN: 00034088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/limn/2011014     Document Type: Article

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