First groundwater chemical status assessment of the Buna River-Protected Landscape (Albania)

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 6325-6338

  Barbieri, Maurizio ^a   Garone, Angelica ^a   Neziri, Anila ^b   Rossi, Matteo ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Department of Biology and Chemistry L Gurakuqi University of Shkodra   (Albania)

^c IUCN   (Albania)

Author keywords

Albania; Groundwater chemical status; Hydrogeochemistry; IUCN protected area; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEYS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HEALTH RISKS; HYDROCHEMISTRY; ISOMERS; PESTICIDES; QUALITY CONTROL; RIVERS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER QUALITY;

ALBANIA; CHEMICAL STATUS; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE ISOMERS; HYDRO GEOCHEMISTRIES; MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; PROTECTED AREAS; WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

WATER RESOURCES;

ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AVIFAUNA; CALCIUM CARBONATE; ECOTOURISM; EUROPEAN UNION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; ICHTHYOFAUNA; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION; NATURE RESERVE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SALINE INTRUSION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THRESHOLD; WATER QUALITY;

ALBANIA; BUNA RIVER;

EID: 84941180843     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-015-4657-3     Document Type: Article

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