Beyond bulk properties: Responses of coastal summer plankton communities to nutrient enrichment in the northern Baltic Sea

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 48, Issue 1 I, 2003, Pages 189-209

  Lignell, Risto ^d   Seppälä, Jukka ^a   Kuuppo, Pirjo ^a   Tamminen, Timo ^a   Andersen, Tom ^b   Gismervik, Ingrid ^c  

^a FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d FINNISH INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ENCLOSURE EXPERIMENT; GROWTH RESPONSE; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PLANKTON;

(NORTH); BALTIC SEA;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; CILIOPHORA; CYANOBACTERIA; UNCULTURED CYANOBACTERIUM;

EID: 0037247066     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2003.48.1.0189     Document Type: Article

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