Similarity between contemporary vegetation and plant remains in the surface sediment in Mediterranean lakes

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 724-736

  Levi, Eti E ^a   Çakiroǧlu, Ayşe I ^a   Bucak, Tuba ^a   Odgaard, Bent V ^b   Davidson, Thomas A ^b   Jeppesen, Erik ^b,c,d   Beklioǧlu, Meryem ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^d Sino Danish Centre for Education and Research (SDC)   (China)

Author keywords

Conductivity; Eutrophication; Floating leaved macrophytes; Plant macrofossils; Submerged macrophytes

Indexed keywords

CHARACEAE; CHARALES; POTAMOGETON;

EID: 84897666033     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12299     Document Type: Article

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