Variability of Water Flow in the Hyporheic Corridor: A Case Study of the Warta Valley in Poznań

Quaestiones Geographicae

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

By:

Monika Okońska

and Filip Wolny

Open Access

|Jul 2025

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