The Investigation of the Lake Water/Groundwater Interaction in the Hyporheic Zone of a Groundwater-Dependent Lake (Lake Płotki, Poland)

Quaestiones Geographicae

Volume 44 (2025): Issue 3 (September 2025)

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Magdalena Matusiak, Marek Marciniak, Paweł Owsianny and Krzysztof Dragon

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.14746/quageo-2025-0025 | Journal eISSN: 2081-6383 | Journal ISSN: 2082-2103

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