The relationship between diatoms and water temperature in thirty subarctic Fennoscandian Lakes

Arctic and Alpine Research

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 75-92

  Weckström, Jan ^a   Korhola, Atte ^a   Blom, Tom ^a  

^a Laboratory of Physical Geography   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; DIATOM; LAKE WATER TEMPERATURE; SUBARCTIC REGION; TUNDRA; WATER TEMPERATURE;

FENNOSCANDIA;

EID: 0030620095     PISSN: 00040851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1551838     Document Type: Article

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