Field Note: Threatening Tonle Sap: Challenges for Southeast-Asia’s largest Freshwater Lake

The Tonle Sap ecosystem in Cambodia is Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake; strongly impacted by the Mekong river flood pulse. The lake is home to exceptional biodiversity, and rural communities living in free floating villages on the lake and on its shores. The fragile niche ecosystems as well...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kuenzer, Claudia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Pazifische Studien e.V. 2013-09-01
Series:Pacific Geographies
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Online Access:http://www.pacific-geographies.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2013/07/PG40_KUENZER.pdf