Seasonal and spatial variations of water quality, substrate and aquatic macrophytes based on side scan sonar, in an eastern Mediterranean lagoon (Kaiafas, Ionian Sea)

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 3543-3558

  Christia, Chrysoula ^a   Papastergiadou, Eva ^a   Papatheodorou, George ^a   Geraga, Maria ^a   Papadakis, Emmanouil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coastal lagoon; Physicochemical parameters; Sediment type; Submerged macrophytes; Trophic status

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; BACKSCATTERING; HEAVY METALS; SEDIMENTS; SONAR; TEXTURES; WATER QUALITY;

COASTAL LAGOONS; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; HEAVY METAL CONCENTRATION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS; SUBMERGED MACROPHYTES; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION; TROPHIC STATUS; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS;

LAKES;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BACKSCATTER; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL A; COASTAL LAGOON; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; MACROPHYTE; PHYTOBENTHOS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIDESCAN SONAR; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; SUBSTRATE; TROPHIC STATUS; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY;

ELIS; GREECE; IONIAN SEA; KAIAFAS LAGOON; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; WESTERN GREECE;

CHARA; CHARA HISPIDA; PECTINATUS; POTAMOGETON PECTINATUS;

EID: 84897452194     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-013-2746-8     Document Type: Article

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