Assessing water stress in Mediterranean lotic systems: Insights from an artificially intermittent river in Greece

Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 581-597

  Skoulikidis, Nikolaos Th ^a   Vardakas, Leonidas ^a   Karaouzas, Ioannis ^a   Economou, Alcibiades N ^a   Dimitriou, Elias ^a   Zogaris, Stamatis ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Drought; Fish; Intermittent rivers; Macroinvertebrates; Mediterranean; Water stress

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DESICCATION; DROUGHT; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FISH; IRRIGATION; LOTIC ENVIRONMENT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RIVER BED; SIZE STRUCTURE; SPECIES RICHNESS; WATER STRESS; WATER USE;

EVROTAS RIVER; GREECE; PELOPONNISOS;

EID: 84860389469     PISSN: 10151621     EISSN: 14209055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00027-011-0228-1     Document Type: Article

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