On the dominance of filamentous cyanobacteria in shallow, turbid lakes

Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 272-282

  Scheffer, Marten ^a   Rinaldi, Sergio ^b   Gragnani, Alessandra ^b   Mur, Luuc R ^c   Van Nes, Egbert H ^a  

^a INST INLAND WATER MGMT WASTE W   (Netherlands)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alternative stable states; Blue green algae; Catastrophe; Cyanobacteria; Dominance model; Lake restoration; Light; Oscillatoria

Indexed keywords

ALGAL COMMUNITY; CYANOBACTERIA; DOMINANCE; PHYTOPLANKTON COMMUNITY; TURBIDITY;

OSCILLATORIACEAE;

EID: 0030825395     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[0272:OTDOFC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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