Phytoplankton and water quality in a Mediterranean drinking-water reservoir (Marathonas Reservoir, Greece)

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 181, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 563-575

  Katsiapi, Matina ^a   Moustaka Gouni, Maria ^a   Michaloudi, Evangelia ^a   Kormas, Konstantinos Ar ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Drinking water reservoir; Ecological water quality; Flushing rate; Management; WFD

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIA; DRINKING-WATER RESERVOIR; ECOLOGICAL WATER QUALITY; FLUSHING RATES; WFD;

ALGAE CONTROL; ECOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; POTABLE WATER; RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

DRINKING WATER; SURFACE WATER;

CYANOBACTERIUM; DIATOM; DINOFLAGELLATE; DRINKING WATER; PHYTOPLANKTON; TOXIN; WATER QUALITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DESMIDIALES; DIATOM; DINOFLAGELLATE; EUTROPHICATION; GREECE; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA; NONHUMAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; WATER QUALITY; WATER STANDARD; WATER SUPPLY;

DRINKING WATER; EUTROPHICATION; GREECE; MICROCYSTIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEASONS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

GREECE;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; DESMIDIALES; DINOPHYCEAE; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 80054735814     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-010-1851-3     Document Type: Article

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