Rivers of the Balkans

Rivers of Europe

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 421-466

  Skoulikidis, Nikolaos Th ^a   Zogaris, Stamatis ^a   Economou, Alcibiades N ^a   Gritzalis, Konstantinos C ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-369449-2.00011-4     Document Type: Chapter

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