Cyanobacterial blooms in the Baltic Sea: Natural or human-induced?

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 716-726

  Bianchi, Thomas S ^a   Engelhaupt, Erika ^a   Westman, Per ^b   Andrén, Thomas ^b   Rolff, Carl ^b   Elmgren, Ragnar ^b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOMASS; CYANOBACTERIUM; EUTROPHICATION;

BALTIC SEA;

EID: 0034058020     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2000.45.3.0716     Document Type: Article

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