Non-perennial Mediterranean rivers in Europe: Status, pressures, and challenges for research and management

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 577, Issue , 2017, Pages 1-18

  Skoulikidis, Nikolaos T ^a   Sabater, Sergi ^b,i   Datry, Thibault ^c   Morais, Manuela M ^d   Buffagni, Andrea ^e   Dörflinger, Gerald ^f   Zogaris, Stamatis ^a   del Mar Sánchez Montoya, Maria ^g   Bonada, Nuria ^h   Kalogianni, Eleni ^a   Rosado, Joana ^d   Vardakas, Leonidas ^a   De Girolamo, Anna Maria ^e   Tockner, Klement ^g  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b CATALAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH ICRA   (Spain)

^c UR MALY   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^e WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^f Water Development Department   (Cyprus)

^g LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biogeochemistry; Climate; Hydrobiology; Hydrology; Management; Non perennial (temporary, intermittent, ephemeral) rivers and streams; Pressures; WFD

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; HYDROLOGY; LAND USE; MANAGEMENT; PRESSURE; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE; FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; HYDROBIOLOGY; MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATIONS; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT PLANS; RIVERS AND STREAMS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY;

RIVERS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; HYDROBIOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; RIVER MANAGEMENT;

ANTHROPOGENIC PRESSURE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOTYPOLOGY; CLIMATIC PRESSURE; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ECOSYSTEM MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROGRAPHY; NON PERENNIAL RIVERS AND STREAM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIVER BASIN; RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84995921637     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.10.147     Document Type: Review

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