Assessing the Conservation Status of Alder-Ash Alluvial Forest and Atlantic Salmon in the Natura 2000 River Network of Cantabria, Northern Spain

River Conservation and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 193-210

  Barquín, José ^a   Ondiviela, Bárbara ^a   Recio, María ^a   Álvarez Cabria, Mario ^a   Peñas, Francisco J ^a   Fernández, Diego ^a   Oti, Laura ^a   García, Andrés ^a   Álvarez, César ^a   Juanes, José A ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENTAL HYDRAULICS INSTITUTE IH CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Favourable conservation status; Habitat structure; Habitats Directive; Reference conditions; Water Framework Directive

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886823177     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119961819.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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