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  • Perspectives for an integrated understanding of tropical and temperate high-mountain lakes

    Jordi Catalan, John C. Donato Rondón
    22-03-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1372
    5816
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  • Vysne Wahlenbergovo pleso; credit: Kristo (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kristo~commonswiki)

    Classification of the Tatra Mountain lakes in terms of the duration of their ice cover (Poland and Slovakia) Ice cover classification of the Tatra Mountain lakes

    Bogdan Gadek, Mirosław Szumny, Bartłomiej Szypuła
    11-12-2019
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2019.1920
    2086
    Downloads: 657
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  • Lake Manzina

    Environmental factors as drivers for macroinvertebrate and diatom diversity in Alpine lakes: New insights from the Stelvio National Park (Italy) Biodiversity of mountain Alpine lakes

    Angela Boggero, Silvia Zaupa, Simona Musazzi, Michela Rogora, Elzbieta Dumnicka, Andrea Lami
    08-02-2019
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2019.1863
    2615
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  • Mountain lakes of Mont Avic Natural Park: ecological features and conservation issues Mountain lakes of a natural park

    Rocco Tiberti, Francesco Buscaglia, Marco Armodi, Cristiana Callieri, Fabio Ribelli, Michela Rogora, Gabriele Tartari, Massimo Bocca
    08-11-2019
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2019.1923
    2545
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  • Assessing the potential environmental factors affecting cladoceran assemblage composition in arsenic-contaminated lakes near abandoned silver mines

    Branaavan Sivarajah, Jesse C. Vermaire, John P. Smol
    17-05-2021
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2021.2004
    1696
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  • Ecological dynamics of two remote alpine lakes during ice-free season

    Rocco Tiberti, Sabino Metta, Martina Austoni, Cristiana Callieri, Morabito Giuseppe, Marchetto Aldo, Michela Rogora, Gabriele A. Tartari, Jost Von Hardenberg, Antonello Provenzale
    e33
    29-05-2013
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2013.e33
    5818
    Downloads: 1406
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  • The impact of global warming on lake surface water temperature in Poland - the application of empirical-statistical downscaling, 1971-2100

    Bartosz Czernecki, Mariusz Ptak
    02-05-2018
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2018.1707
    3492
    Downloads: 1027
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  • Using a morpho-functional approach to assess phytoplankton dynamics in two adjacent high-mountain lakes: a 10-year survey

    Renata Trevisan, Marco Picarella, Frank B. Dazzo, Stefano Bona, Giuseppe Morabito, Andrea Squartini
    06-05-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.891
    4039
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  • Effect of climate change on thermal-ice regime of shallow lakes compared to deep lakes: Case study of lakes in the temperate zone (Northern Poland) Effect of climate change on regime of lakes

    Włodzimierz Marszelewski, Bożena Pius
    14-11-2018
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2018.1763
    2500
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  • Modelling physical and ecological processes in medium-to-large deep European perialpine lakes: a review

    Claudia Dresti, Andrea Fenocchi, Diego Copetti
    13-10-2021
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2021.2041
    2117
    Downloads: 509
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  • A georeferenced dataset for occurrence records of the phylum Rotifera in Africa

    Zacarias Fresno Lopez, Tommaso Cancellario, Diego Fontaneto, Lyudmila Kamburska, Karimullah Karimullah, Robert L. Wallace, Elizabeth J. Walsh, Radoslav Smolak
    06-03-2023
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2023.2116
    5120
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  • Predicting aquatic macrophyte occurrence in soft-water oligotrophic lakes (Pyrenees mountain range)

    Cristina Pulido, Joan Lluís Riera, Enric Ballesteros, Eglantine Chappuis, Esperança Gacia
    22-08-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.965
    4851
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  • The diet of introduced brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis; Mitchill, 1814) in an alpine area and a literature review on its feeding ecology

    Rocco Tiberti, Stefano Brighenti, Claudia Canedoli, Rocco Iacobuzio, Matteo Rolla
    03-05-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1366
    3965
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  • Equatorial mountain lakes show extended periods of thermal stratification with recent climate change

    Neal Michelutti, Andrew L. Labaj, Christopher Grooms, John P. Smol
    29-03-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1444
    5075
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  • Seasonal quantitative dynamics and ecology of pelagic rotifers in an acidified boreal lake

    Svein Birger Wærvågen, Tom Andersen
    05-12-2017
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2017.1685
    3107
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  • By Kufoleto - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4691915

    Living organisms and sedimentary remains from high mountain lakes in the Alps

    Aldo Marchetto, Angela Boggero, Diego Fontaneto, Andrea Lami, André F. Lotter, Marina M. Manca, Julieta Massaferro, Rosario Mosello, Simona Musazzi, Ulrike Nickus, Roland Psenner, Michela Rogora, Sanna Sorvari Stundet, Evzen Stuchlik, Gabriele A. Tartari, Hansjörg Thies, Monica Tolotti
    12-08-2021
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2021.2036
    2659
    Downloads: 1199
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  • Fossil cladoceran record from Lake Piramide Inferiore (5067 m asl) in the Nepalese Himalayas: biogeographical and paleoecological implications

    Liisa Nevalainen, Andrea Lami, Tomi P. Luoto, Marina Manca
    30-04-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.864
    4001
    Downloads: 1128
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  • Sub-fossil chironomids as indicators of hydrological changes in the shallow and high-altitude lake Shen Co, Tibetan Plateau, over the past two centuries

    Sonja Rigterink, Paula Echeverría-Galindo, Rodrigo Martínez-Abarca, Julieta Massaferro, Philipp Hoelzmann, Bernd Wünnemann, Andreas Laug, Liseth Pérez, Wengang Kang, Nicole Börner, Anja Schwarz, Ping Peng, Junbo Wang, Liping Zhu, Antje Schwalb
    28-07-2022
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2022.2077
    5159
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  • Zooplankton abundance, species composition and ecology of tropical high-mountain crater lake Wonchi, Ethiopia

    Fasil Degefu, Michael Schagerl
    11-11-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.986
    6631
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  • Chironomid communities as indicators of local and global changes in an oligotrophic high mountain lake (Enol Lake, Northwestern Spain)

    Pol Tarrats, Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles, Maria Rieradevall, Narcís Prat
    29-12-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1590
    3876
    Downloads: 1116
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  • Cascading effect of exotic fish fry on plankton community in a tropical Andean high mountain lake: a mesocosm experiment

    Yimy Herrera-Martínez, Juan César Paggi, Camilo Bernardo García
    26-01-2017
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2017.1488
    4552
    Downloads: 1420
    HTML: 956
  • Atmospheric deposition chemistry in a subalpine area of the Julian Alps, North-West Slovenia

    Gregor Muri
    e23
    26-04-2013
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2013.e23
    4126
    Downloads: 902
    HTML: 1207
  • Assessment of phosphorus behavior in sediments of Lake Sevan, Armenia

    Tallent Dadi, Wolf von Tümpling, Chenxi Mi, Martin Schultze, Kurt Friese
    25-10-2023
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2022.2132
    1799
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  • Complex effects of acidification, habitat properties and fish stock on littoral macroinvertebrate assemblages in montane standing waters

    Jana Petruželová, Jindřiška Bojková, Jan Sychra, Vanda Šorfová, Vendula Polášková, Jaroslav Vrba
    11-01-2022
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2022.2053
    5621
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  • By Hnsjrgnweis - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49229284

    Ciliates in different types of pools in temperate, tropical, and polar climate zones – implications for climate change

    Tomasz Mieczan, Urszula Bronowicka-Mielniczuk
    28-09-2021
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2021.1997
    3013
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  • Lake-level variations and tides in Lago Argentino, Patagonia: insights from pressure tide gauge records

    Andreas Richter, Eric Marderwald, José L. Hormaechea, Luciano Mendoza, Raúl Perdomo, Gerardo Connon, Mirko Scheinert, Martin Horwath, Reinhard Dietrich
    12-08-2015
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2015.1189
    5532
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  • Spatial distribution of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria across eight freshwater lakes in sediments from Jiangsu of China

    Xu Sun, Aili Wang, Liuyan Yang, Liyun Guo, Qiankun Chen, Zhinxin Hu, Lijuan Jiang, Lin Xiao
    04-03-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.905
    3770
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  • Water collection point on the Gaogesitaiguole River

    Changes in and driving factors of the lake area of Huri Chagannao’er Lake in Inner Mongolia

    Danyang Danyang, Chenhao Li, Lijie Pu, Hugejiletu Hugejiletu, Xiaojing Suo, Ming Zhu, Yalu Zhang, Xiaoqing Wang, Gaili He, Dejing Chen
    26-10-2022
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2022.2079
    2728
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  • An annotated checklist and bibliography of the Diaptomidae (Copepoda, Calanoida) of Italy, Corsica, and the Maltese islands

    Giuseppe Alfonso, Fabio Stoch, Federico Marrone
    13-07-2021
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2021.2019
    3510
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  • <a href="https://it.freepik.com/foto-gratuito/colpo-di-primo-piano-alto-angolo-di-pietre-in-riva-al-mare-con-il-mare-sullo-sfondo_10542456.htm#query=FRESHWATER%20BIODIVERSITY&position=9&from_view=search&track=ais">Immagine di wirestock</a> su Freepik

    A georeferenced dataset of Italian occurrence records of the phylum Rotifera

    Vittoria Ferrari, Arianna Gualdi, Isabella Bertani, Diego Fontaneto, Lyudmila Kamburska, Karimullah Karimullah, Federico Marrone, Ulrike Obertegger, Giampaolo Rossetti, Rocco Tiberti, Tommaso Cancellario
    06-02-2023
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2023.2107
    2582
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  • Spatial distribution of crustacean zooplankton in a large river-connected lake related to trophic status and fish

    Wenzhi Wei, Riming Chen, Liufu Wang, Lixia Fu
    23-05-2017
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2017.1622
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  • Richness of littoral macroinvertebrate communities in mountain ponds from NW Spain: what factors does it depend on?

    Carlos Martinez-Sanz, Camino Fernandez-Alaez, Francisco Garcia-Criado
    e16
    19-01-2012
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2012.e16
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  • An archive for the history of limnology in Verbania Pallanza (Northern Italy)

    Rosario Mosello
    24-09-2021
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2021.2039
    1740
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  • Sedimentary lipid biomarkers in the magnesium rich and highly alkaline Lake Salda (south-western Anatolia)

    Jérôme Kaiser, Bora Ön, Helge W. Arz, Sena Akçer-Ön
    30-06-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1337
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  • Contemporary community composition, spatial distribution patterns, and biodiversity characteristics of zooplankton in large alpine Lake Sevan, Armenia

    Armine Hayrapetyan, Gor Gevorgyan , Martin Schultze, Muhammed Shikhani, Termine Khachikyan, Aleksandr Krylov, Karsten Rinke
    23-11-2023
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2022.2150
    1691
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  • Archaea and Bacteria in deep lake hypolimnion: in situ dark inorganic carbon uptake

    Cristiana Callieri, Manuela Coci, Ester M. Eckert, Michaela M. Salcher, Roberto Bertoni
    12-02-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.937
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  • Seasonal variation of mercury and δ15N in fish from Lake Heddalsvatn, southern Norway

    Clara E. Moreno, Eirik Fjeld, Min K. Deshar, Espen Lydersen
    11-06-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.918
    2998
    Downloads: 1110
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  • The first floristic study of freshwater dinoflagellates (Dinophyceae) in Colombia

    Carolina Bustamante-Gil, Eduardo Amat, Andrés Boltovskoy, John J. Ramírez-Restrepo
    07-10-2021
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2021.2023
    2829
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  • Phytoplankton and littoral epilithic diatoms in high mountain lakes of the Adamello-Brenta Regional Park (Trentino, Italy) and their relation to trophic status and acidification risk

    Monica TOLOTTI
    171-188
    01-08-2001
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2001.1.171
    2673
    Downloads: 981
  • Is diatom richness responding to catchment glaciation? A case study from Canadian headwater streams

    Doris Gesierich, Eugen Rott
    e7
    19-01-2012
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2012.e7
    3860
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  • Limnological survey in eight high mountain lakes located in Lago Maggiore watershed (Switzerland)

    Alberto BARBIERI, Mauro VERONESI, Marco SIMONA, Stefano MALUSARDI, Viera STRAŠKRABOVÁ
    179-192
    01-08-1999
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.1999.179
    2664
    Downloads: 913
  • Factors affecting diatom dynamics in the alpine lakes of Colbricon (Northern Italy): a 10-year survey

    Renata TREVISAN, Claudia POGGI, Andrea SQUARTINI
    199-208
    01-08-2010
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2010.199
    2395
    Downloads: 1323
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    Estimating aquatic invertebrate diversity in the southern Alps using data from Biodiversity Days

    Georg H. Niedrist, Birgit Lösch, Magdalena Nagler, Hannes Rauch, Samuel Vorhauser, Alberto Scotti, Roberta Bottarin, Renate Alber
    21-06-2021
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2021.1999
    1805
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  • <a href="https://it.freepik.com/foto-gratuito/colpo-di-primo-piano-alto-angolo-di-pietre-in-riva-al-mare-con-il-mare-sullo-sfondo_10542456.htm#query=FRESHWATER%20BIODIVERSITY&position=9&from_view=search&track=ais">Immagine di wirestock</a> su Freepik

    IMOST: a database for non-marine ostracods in the Iberian Peninsula, the Balearic Islands and Macaronesia

    Andreu Castillo-Escrivà, Ángel Baltanás, Antonio Camacho, David J. Horne, Joan Lluís Pretus, Francesc Mesquita-Joanes
    15-02-2023
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2023.2115
    1676
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  • Population growth potential of rotifers from a high altitude eutrophic waterbody, Madín reservoir (State of Mexico, Mexico): The importance of seasonal sampling Rotifer growth potential

    Rosa Martha Moreno-Gutiérrez, S.S.S. Sarma, Alma Socorro Sobrino-Figueroa, S. Nandini
    27-06-2018
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2018.1823
    2813
    Downloads: 970
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  • Unusual median pores of Alona head shields recovered from recent and pre-industrial sediments of Alpine lakes

    Marina MANCA, Fiorenza G. MARGARITORA
    44-48
    01-02-2008
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2008.44
    2421
    Downloads: 732
  • Functional diversity of macrophyte communities within and between Pyrenean lakes

    Esperança GACIA, Eglantine CHAPPUIS, Ana LUMBRERAS, Joan L. RIERA, Enric BALLESTEROS
    25-36
    01-02-2009
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2009.25
    2929
    Downloads: 1027
  • Atmospheric deposition and lake chemistry trends at a high mountain site in the eastern Alps

    Danilo TAIT, Bertha THALER
    61-71
    01-02-2000
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2000.61
    2825
    Downloads: 1132
  • Oligochaete distribution in alpine freshwaters: not a mere question of altitude

    Elzbieta Dumnicka, Kamil Najberek, Valeria Lencioni
    04-10-2023
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2023.2148
    1936
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  • Lake-wide assessment of trace elements in surface sediments and water of Lake Sevan

    Gor Gevorgyan, Wolf von Tuempling, Gayane Shahnazaryan, Kurt Friese, Martin Schultze
    10-05-2023
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2022.2096
    2031
    Downloads: 1210
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  • A comprehensive evaluation of the crustacean assemblages in southern Iberian Mediterranean wetlands

    Juan Diego Gilbert, Inmaculada de Vicente, Fernando Ortega, Raquel Jiménez-Melero, Gema Parra, Francisco Guerrero
    11-09-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.993
    4299
    Downloads: 1190
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  • Biogeography of the ‘water flea’ Daphnia O. F. Müller (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anomopoda) on the Indian subcontinent

    Sameer M. Padhye, Alexey A. Kotov, Neelesh Dahanukar, Henri Dumont
    21-06-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1476
    4511
    Downloads: 1758
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  • Ecological relations and temporal changes in the pelagial of the high mountain lakes in the Rila Mountains (Bulgaria)

    Roumen KALCHEV, Ivan BOTEV, Milena HRISTOZOVA, Wesselin NAIDENOW†, Galerida RAIKOVA-PETROVA, Maya STOYNEVA, Dobrina TEMNISKOVA-TOPALOVA, Teodora TRICHKOVA
    90-100
    01-02-2004
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2004.90
    3178
    Downloads: 986
  • Changes in epilithic diatom assemblages in a Mediterranean high mountain lake (Laguna de La Caldera, Sierra Nevada, Spain) after a period of drought

    Pedro M. SÁNCHEZ-CASTILLO, Eduardo J. LINARES-CUESTA, D. FERNÁNDEZ-MORENO
    49-55
    01-02-2008
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2008.49
    3398
    Downloads: 911
  • Zooplankton as an early warning system of persistent organic pollutants contamination in a deep lake (lake Iseo, Northern Italy)

    Roberta Bettinetti, Letizia Garibaldi, Barbara Leoni, Silvia Quadroni, Silvana Galassi
    e36
    24-07-2012
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2012.e36
    3300
    Downloads: 1402
    HTML: 715
  • Endemism in the Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of Southern Africa

    Kay Van Damme, Eugeniya I. Bekker, Alexey A. Kotov
    e36
    19-08-2013
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2013.e36
    4962
    Downloads: 1025
    HTML: 2565
  • Modelling ecological specificities of freshwater molluscs: the exemplary case of Bythinella austriaca (v. Frauenfeld, 1857) (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia)

    Robert Sturm
    26-07-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1468
    2372
    Downloads: 882
    HTML: 1137
  • Population dynamics and production of crustacean zooplankton in two mountain lakes in the Italian Alps (Lake Paione Superiore and Lake Malghette).

    Marina MANCA, Patrizia COMOLI, Valeria LENCIONI
    25-28
    01-02-1999
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.1999.25
    2434
    Downloads: 818
  • Studies on zooplankton of Lago Paione Superiore

    Marina MANCA, Patrizia COMOLI
    131-135
    01-08-1999
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.1999.131
    2845
    Downloads: 892
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