Assessing environmental conditions in rivers and streams with diatoms

The Diatoms: Applications for the Environmental and Earth Sciences, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 57-85

  Stevenson, R Jan ^a   Pan, Yangdong ^b   van Dam, Herman ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Consultancy for Water and Nature ^*  (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511763175.005     Document Type: Chapter

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