Abstract
A portion of the former Lake Hula wetland (northern Israel) was re-flooded in spring 1994 and the physical, chemical and biological developments within the resulting new lake and wetland complex (Agmon) was followed closely by a multi-disciplinary scientific team. The first three years of study relating to Lake Agmon are reported in this issue of Wetlands Ecology & Management. We provide in this paper a general background on the Lake Hula Draining Project in the 1950s and the recent re-flooding and creation of the Agmon wetland.
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Hambright, K., Zohary, T. Lakes Hula and Agmon: destruction and creation of wetland ecosystems in northern Israel. Wetlands Ecology and Management 6, 83–89 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008441015990
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