Implications of human activities, land use changes and climate variability in mediterranean lakes of greece

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Stefanidis, Konstantinos ^a,b   Kostara, Aikaterini ^a   Papastergiadou, Eva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Land cover use changes; Landscape metrics; Mediterranean region; Water level fluctuations

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CEMENTS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CLIMATOLOGY; LAKES; LAND USE; RUNOFF; WATER LEVELS; WATER QUALITY;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; LAND COVER/USE; LANDSCAPE METRICS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; WATER-LEVEL FLUCTUATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHLORIDE; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LAKE LEVEL; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; SOFTWARE;

CENTRAL MACEDONIA; GREECE; PELLA; VEGORITIS LAKE;

EID: 85006051830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w8110483     Document Type: Article

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