The Lower Danube River-Danube Delta-North West Black Sea: A pivotal area of major interest for the past, present and future of its fish fauna - A short review

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 545-546, Issue , 2016, Pages 137-151

  Bănăduc, Doru ^a   Rey, Sonia ^b   Trichkova, Teodora ^c   Lenhardt, Mirjana ^d   Curtean Bănăduc, Angela ^a  

^a LUCIAN BLAGA UNIVERSITY OF SIBIU   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (Bulgaria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Geoecosystem; Ichthyosystem; Spatial dynamics; Temporal trends

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; EXPLOSIVES; GEOLOGY;

CONSERVATION PRIORITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PERTURBATIONS; GEO-ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGICAL TIME; HABITAT HETEROGENEITIES; ICHTHYOSYSTEM; SPATIAL DYNAMICS; TEMPORAL TRENDS;

FISH;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BENTHOS; CAPTURE METHOD; HABITAT CONSERVATION; ICHTHYOFAUNA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AQUATIC FAUNA; BIOTOPE; BLACK SEA; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FISH; HABITAT USE; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES EXTINCTION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WATER POLLUTION;

BLACK SEA; DANUBE DELTA;

ANIMALS; BLACK SEA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 84952705966     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.12.058     Document Type: Review

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