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  • Distribution of subfossil chironomids (Diptera, Chironomidae) along a water depth gradient in the shallow Lake Spore, northern Poland Distribution of chironomids along a water depth gradient

    Krzysztof Pleskot, Mónika Tóth, Karina Apolinarska
    05-08-2019
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2019.1916
    1768
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  • Lake heat content and stability variation due to climate change: coupled regional climate model (REMO)-lake model (DYRESM) analysis

    Stefan Weinberger, Mark Vetter
    19-02-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.668
    5658
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  • 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
    1728
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  • Spatial uniformity in depth optima of midges: evidence from sedimentary archives of shallow Alpine and boreal lakes

    Tomi P. Luoto
    e24
    19-01-2012
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2012.e24
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  • Higher late summer methane emission from central than northern European lakes

    Päivi Rinta, David Bastviken, Jos Schilder, Maarten van Hardenbroek, Tabea Stötter, Oliver Heiri
    31-08-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1475
    4879
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  • 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
    2326
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  • Effects of the proximal factors on the diel vertical migration of zooplankton in a plateau meso-eutrophic Lake Erhai, China

    Cuilin Hu, Shengrui Wang, Longgen Guo, Ping Xie
    26-03-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.684
    3103
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  • Transparent exopolymer particles (TEP), phytoplankton and picocyanobacteria along a littoral-to-pelagic depth-gradient in a large subalpine lake

    Cristiana Callieri, J. Salvador Hernández-Avilés, Ester M. Eckert, Michela Rogora, Gabriele Tartari, Tommaso Sforzi, Raffaella Sabatino, Roberto Bertoni
    13-07-2021
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2021.2021
    2030
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  • Revisiting lakes within the Rideau Canal system (Ontario, Canada) to assess the impacts of multiple environmental stressors over the past ~25 years using diatom-based paleolimnology

    Kapillesh Balasubramaniam, Kathleen M. Rühland, Andrew M. Paterson, John P. Smol
    25-02-2025
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2025.2192
    2011
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  • Temporal habitat suitability modeling of Caspian shad (Alosa spp.) in the southern Caspian Sea

    Ali Haghi Vayghan, Hasan Fazli, Rasul Ghorbani, Ming-An Lee, Hasan Nasrollahzadeh Saravi
    30-11-2015
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2015.1215
    2979
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  • Diel vertical distribution of planktonic microcrustaceans (Crustacea: Cladocera, Copepoda) in a natural shallow lake from Transylvania, Romania

    Karina P. Battes, Laura Momeu
    04-03-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.890
    2767
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  • Trophic history of French sub-alpine lakes over the last ~150 years: phosphorus reconstruction and assessment of taphonomic biases

    Vincent Berthon, Aldo Marchetto, Frédéric Rimet, Emmanuelle Dormia, Jean-Philippe Jenny, Cécile Pignol, Marie-Elodie Perga
    e34
    27-09-2013
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2013.e34
    5686
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  • Climate projection of Lake Superior under a future warming scenario Climate projection of Lake Superior

    Katsumi Matsumoto, Kathy S. Tokos, Joseph Rippke
    08-07-2019
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2019.1902
    2139
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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
    5774
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  • Climate change dominates recent sedimentation and organic carbon burial in Lake Chenghai, southwest China Climate change dominates sedimentation and carbon burial

    Weiwei Sun, Qingfeng Jiang, Enfeng Liu, Jie Chang, Enlou Zhang
    11-05-2018
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2018.1762
    2240
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  • δ18O and δD variations in some volcanic lakes on the Cameroon Volcanic Line (West-Africa): generating isotopic baseline data for volcano monitoring and surveillance in Cameroon

    . Issa, Festus Aka Tongwa, Alfred G. Mouliom, Dmitri Rouwet, Wilson Y. Fantong, Boris Chako Tchamabé, Takeshi Ohba, Yutaka Yoshida, Daniel Sighomnou, Nkamdjou Sigha, Minoru Kusakabe
    24-06-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.966
    3221
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  • 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
    4068
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  • Fifty years of eutrophication and lake restoration reflected in sedimentary carbon and nitrogen isotopes of a small, hardwater lake (south Germany)

    Emanuel Braig, Christoph Mayr, Gerald Kirchner, Andrea Hofmann, Uta Raeder, Arnulf Melzer
    e21
    23-04-2013
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2013.e21
    4441
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  • How the catchment-river-lake continuum shapes the downstream water quality

    Sirje Vilbaste, Peeter Pall, Marina Haldna, Peeter Nõges, Kai Piirsoo, Tiina Nõges
    31-01-2024
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2024.2167
    2801
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  • Variation of stream metabolism along a tropical environmental gradient Stream metabolism variation

    Wesley A. Saltarelli, Walter K. Dodds, Flavia Tromboni, Maria do Carmo Calijuri, Vinicius Neres-Lima, Carlos E. Jordão, Julio C.P. Palhares, Davi G.F. Cunha
    22-05-2018
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2018.1717
    2949
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  • Winter decrease of zooplankton abundance and biomass in subalpine oligotrophic Lake Atnsjøen (SE Norway) Seasonal changes of zooplankton in a subalpine lake

    Thomas C. Jensen
    10-09-2019
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2019.1877
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  • Contribution of extreme meteorological forcing to vertical mixing in a small, shallow subtropical lake

    Nobuaki Kimura, Wen-Cheng Liu, Jeng-Wei Tsai, Chih-Yu Chiu, Timothy K. Kratz, Akira Tai
    31-10-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1477
    3691
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  • Effects of natural surfactants on the spatial variability of surface water temperature under intermittent light winds on Lake Geneva

    Mehrshad Foroughan, Ulrich Lemmin, David Andrew Barry
    18-07-2022
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2022.2048
    3652
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  • Temporal changes in nutrients in a deep oligomictic lake: the role of external loads versus climate change

    Michela Rogora, Martina Austoni, Rossana Caroni, Paola Giacomotti, Lyudmila Kamburska, Aldo Marchetto, Rosario Mosello, Arianna Orru', Gabriele Tartari, Claudia Dresti
    25-11-2021
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2021.2051
    2637
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  • Fisheries impacts on lake ecosystem structure in the context of a changing climate and trophic state

    Tiina Nõges, Orlane Anneville, Jean Guillard, Juta Haberman, Ain Järvalt, Marina Manca, Giuseppe Morabito, Michela Rogora, Stephen J. Thackeray, Pietro Volta, Ian J. Winfield, Peeter Nõges
    27-06-2017
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2017.1640
    5130
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  • Assessment of disturbance at three spatial scales in two large tropical reservoirs

    Letícia de Morais, Bárbara de Oliveira Sanches, Gilmar B. Santos, Philip R. Kaufmann, Robert M. Hughes, Joseline Molozzi, Marcos Callisto
    09-12-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1547
    5178
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  • Nutrient conditions and chironomid productivity in Kolkata, India: assessment for biomonitoring and ecological management

    Soumi Nandi, Gautam Aditya, Goutam K. Saha
    e34
    24-07-2012
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2012.e34
    2887
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  • Scale and watershed features determine lake chemistry patterns across physiographic regions in the far north of Ontario, Canada

    Josef MacLeod, Wendel (Bill) Keller, Andrew M. Paterson, Richard D. Dyer, John M. Gunn
    08-11-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1553
    3478
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  • The relationships between structural and functional diversity within and among macrophyte communities in lakes

    Rafał Chmara, Józef Szmeja, Krzysztof Banaś
    11-10-2017
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2017.1630
    3542
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  • Sedimentary chydorid (Cladocera) ephippia in relation to lake ecological quality in the Austrian Alps

    Liisa Nevalainen, Tomi Petteri Luoto
    e5
    05-02-2013
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2013.e5
    3087
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  • The importance of environmental differences in the structuring of rotifer functional diversity Environmental differences and rotifer functional diversity

    Anita Galir Balkić
    26-06-2019
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2019.1903
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  • Underwater light field determined by water constituents in highly turbid water: the case of Taihu lake

    Chang-Chun Huang, Yun-Mei Li, Hao Yang, Qiao Wang, Jun-Sheng Li, Xia Chen
    e3
    05-02-2013
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2013.e3
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  • Trends in Ostracoda and Cladocera distribution and water chemistry in subarctic Canada: Churchill (Manitoba) lakes and ponds revisited

    Finn A. Viehberg, Reinhard Pienitz
    21-03-2017
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2017.1578
    5695
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  • The dark side of springs: what drives small-scale spatial patterns of subsurface meiofaunal assemblages?

    Barbara Fiasca, Fabio Stoch, Marie-Josè Olivier, Chafik Maazouzi, Marco Petitta, Alessia Di Cioccio, Diana M.P. Galassi
    13-02-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.848
    4638
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  • Multiple stressor effects on water quality in Poplar Bay, Lake of the Woods, Canada: a midge-based assessment of hypolimnetic oxygen conditions over the last two centuries

    Jamie C. Summers, Kathleen M. Rühland, Joshua Kurek, Roberto Quinlan, Andrew M. Paterson, John P. Smol
    e3
    19-01-2012
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2012.e3
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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
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  • Impacts of the Koka hydropower dam on macroinvertebrate assemblages in the Awash River Basin in Ethiopia

    Melaku Getachew, Seid Tiku Mereta, Geremew Sahlu Gebrie, Worku Legesse Mulat, Mary Kelly-Quinne
    13-12-2023
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2023.2153
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  • Unexpected increases in rotifer resting egg abundances during the period of contamination of Lake Orta

    Roberta Piscia, Simone Tabozzi, Roberta Bettinetti, Liisa Nevalainen, Marina M. Manca
    13-04-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1300
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  • Drainage ditches as important habitat for species diversity and rare species of aquatic beetles in agricultural landscapes (Insecta: Coleoptera) Beetle community in agricultural ditches

    Daniel Rolke, Birgit Jaenicke, Jobst Pfaender, Udo Rothe
    07-08-2018
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2018.1819
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  • Development and evaluation of the Lake Multi-biotic Integrity Index for Dongting Lake, China

    Xing Wang, Binghui Zheng, Lusan Liu, Lijing Wang
    05-06-2015
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2015.1186
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  • Mollusk communities of the central Congo River shaped by combined effects of barriers, environmental gradients, and species dispersal

    Oscar Wembo Ndeo, Torsten Hauffe, Diana Delicado, Alidor Kankonda Busanga, Christian Albrecht
    02-05-2017
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2017.1585
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  • First observations of anthropogenic underwater noise in a large multi-use lake

    Marta Bolgan, Emilia Chorazyczewska, Ian J. Winfield, Antonio Codarin, Joanne O'Brien, Martin Gammell
    14-06-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1405
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  • Environmental variability and human activity over the past 140 years documented by sediments of Ebinur Lake in arid central Asia

    Wen Liu, Long Ma, Jinglu Wu, Jilili Abuduwaili
    18-05-2017
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2017.1587
    3852
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  • Environmental flow modeling for the conservation of the endemic trout Oncorhynchus nelsoni (Evermann) in a basin located in the Mexican region of Mediterranean California

    Iván A. Meza-Matty, Napoleon Gudino-Elizondo, Gorgonio Ruiz-Campos
    06-03-2026
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2026.2238
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  • Phytoplankton-zooplankton coupling in a cascade of hypertrophic fishponds

    Marija Radojičić, Michal Šorf, Barbora Müllerová, Radovan Kopp
    21-09-2023
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2023.2145
    2640
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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
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  • Comparison of different solid phase extraction sorbents for the qualitative assessment of dissolved organic nitrogen in freshwater samples using FT-ICR-MS SPE sorbent comparison for DON extraction

    Patrick E. Stücheli, Jutta Niggemann, Carsten J. Schubert
    06-06-2018
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2018.1791
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  • Distribution and conservation status of fairy shrimps (Crustacea: Anostraca) in the astatic soda pans of the Carpathian basin: the role of local and spatial factors

    Zsófia Horváth, Csaba Ferenc Vad, Lajos Vörös, Emil Boros
    e9
    05-02-2013
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2013.e9
    3833
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  • Do environmental variables predict the trophic structure of fish fauna in a subtropical river (Uruguay River Ecoregion)?

    Mayara P. Neves, Dirceu Baumgartner, Gilmar Baumgartner, Rosilene L. Delariva
    28-03-2018
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2018.1738
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    Alfredo Schiavon, Claudio Comoglio, Alessandro Candiotto, Franz Hölker, Muhammad Usama Ashraf, Daniel Nyqvist
    21-03-2023
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2023.2129
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  • Recent findings regarding non-native or poorly known diatom taxa in north-western Italian rivers

    Elisa Falasco, Francesca Bona
    e4
    05-02-2013
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2013.e4
    3341
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  • Arrive, survive and thrive: essential stages in the re-colonization and recovery of zooplankton in urban lakes in Sudbury, Canada

    Norman D. Yan, John Bailey, James C. McGeer, Marina M. Manca, Wendel (Bill) Keller, Martha P. Celis-Salgado, John M. Gunn
    13-04-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1226
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  • The effects of microplastics size and type on entrapment by freshwater macrophytes under vertical and lateral deposition

    Minli Wu, Yi Le Goh, Maxine A. D. Mowe, Peter A. Todd, Darren C.J. Yeo
    09-04-2025
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2025.2218
    1133
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  • Lake Orta chemical status 25 years after liming: problems solved and emerging critical issues

    Michela Rogora, Lyudmila Kamburska, Rosario Mosello, Gabriele Tartari
    13-04-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1320
    3555
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  • A non-deterministic approach to forecasting the trophic evolution of lakes

    Roberto Bertoni, Martino Bertoni, Giuseppe Morabito, Michela Rogora, Cristiana Callieri
    22-03-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1374
    3375
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  • Mississippi River-floodplain connectivity level mediates fish assemblage dynamics

    Adam H. Quade, Allyse Ferrara, Quenton Fontenot, Raynie Harland, Kelly S. Boyle, Guillaume Rieucau
    11-03-2025
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2025.2213
    2029
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  • Influence of inter-annual environmental variability on chrysophyte cyst assemblages: insight from a 2-years sediment trap study in lakes from northern Poland

    Iván Hernández-Almeida, Martin Grosjean, Sergi Pla-Rabes, Janusz Filipiak, Alicja Bonk, Wojciech Tylmann
    14-02-2017
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2017.1604
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  • Application of QUAL2Kw to the Oglio River (Northern Italy) to assess diffuse N pollution via river-groundwater interaction NO3-N pollution estimated via QUAL2Kw

    Hajar Taherisoudejani, Erica Racchetti, Fulvio Celico, Marco Bartoli
    11-07-2018
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2018.1761
    2211
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  • Experimental weed control of Najas marina ssp. intermedia and Elodea nuttallii in lakes using biodegradable jute matting

    Markus A. Hoffmann, Alberto Benavent González, Uta Raeder, Arnulf Melzer
    e39
    07-10-2013
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2013.e39
    5961
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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
    2665
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  • Tools for the development of a benthic quality index for Italian lakes

    Bruno ROSSARO, Angela BOGGERO, Valeria LENCIONI, Laura MARZIALI, Angelo SOLIMINI
    41-51
    01-02-2006
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2006.41
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