Ponds are high profile freshwater habitats of interest to the general public and scientific community. Some ponds can be extremely ancient and may have occupied prominent positions in the landscape or life of a community. Ponds support a substantial proportion of the native British freshwater flora
Conservation and monitoring of pond biodiversity: introduction
✍ Scribed by Beat Oertli; Jeremy Biggs; Régis Céréghino; Patrick Grillas; Pierre Joly; Jean-Bernard Lachavanne
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 95 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1052-7613
- DOI
- 10.1002/aqc.752
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