Littoral macroinvertebrates in Estonian lowland lakes: The effects of habitat, season, eutrophication and land use on some metrics of biological quality

Fundamental and Applied Limnology

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 145-156

  Timm, Henn ^a   Möls, Tõnu ^a,b  

^a ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Biological quality; Estonia; Lakes; Littoral; Macroinvertebrates

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOINDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EUROPEAN UNION; EUTROPHICATION; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; HABITAT SELECTION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LAND USE CHANGE; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ESTONIA;

EID: 84875996040     PISSN: 18639135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/1863-9135/2012/0203     Document Type: Article

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