Lake shoreline in the contiguous United States: Quantity, distribution and sensitivity to observation resolution

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 213-223

  Winslow, Luke A ^a   Read, Jordan S ^b   Hanson, Paul C ^a   Stanley, Emily H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Global limnology; Lake morphology; Lakes; Littoral zone; Terrestrial aquatic interface

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891588272     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12258     Document Type: Article

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