Production potential of aquatic plants in systems mixing floating and submerged macrophytes

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 183-191

  Forchhammer, Nina Cedergreen ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aquaculture; Azolla filiculoides; Biomass production; Competition; Elodea canadensis

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS PRODUCTION;

AQUATIC PLANT; NUTRIENT; PRODUCTIVITY;

ANIMALIA; AZOLLA; AZOLLA FILICULOIDES; ELODEA; ELODEA CANADENSIS; FILICOPHYTA;

EID: 0032989921     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1999.00390.x     Document Type: Article

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