Effects of sequential depositional basins on lake response to urban and agricultural pollution: A palaeoecological analysis of the Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, Canada

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 319-337

  Dixit, Aruna S ^a   Hall, Roland I ^b,c   Leavitt, Peter R ^b   Quinlan, Roberto ^a   Smol, John P ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Diatoms; Eutrophication; Great Plains; Landscape; Palaeolimnology; Pigments; Prairies; Urban

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; POLLUTION; RESPONSE ANALYSIS;

CANADA;

ALGAE; AULACOSEIRA GRANULATA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; STEPHANODISCUS NIAGARAE; STEPHANODISCUS PARVUS;

EID: 0034021041     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.2000.00516.x     Document Type: Article

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