The relationship between littoral benthic invertebrates and lakeshore modification pressure in two alpine lakes

Fundamental and Applied Limnology

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 157-173

  Urbanič, Gorazd ^a,b   Petkovska, Vesna ^a   Pavlin, Maja ^a  

^a Metrology Institute of the Republic of Slovenia   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Alpine lakes; Benthic invertebrates; Lakeshore modifications; Littoral; Stratified multihabitat sampling

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; INVERTEBRATE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; ZOOBENTHOS;

SLOVENIA;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84875972753     PISSN: 18639135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/1863-9135/2012/0207     Document Type: Article

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