Annual and long-term water transparency variations and the consequent seafloor illumination dynamics in the Baltic sea archipelago coast of SW Finland

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 446-458

  Tolvanen, Harri ^a   Suominen, Tapio ^a   Kalliola, Risto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

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