From Greenland to green lakes: Cultural eutrophication and the loss of benthic pathways in lakes

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1408-1418

  Vadeboncoeur, Yvonne ^a,f   Jeppesen, Erik ^a   Vander Zanden, M Jake ^b   Schierup, Hans Henrik ^c   Christoffersen, Kirsten ^d   Lodge, David M ^e  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^f IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; EUTROPHICATION; PERIPHYTON; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRODUCTIVITY;

GREENLAND;

ALGAE;

EID: 0042573716     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2003.48.4.1408     Document Type: Article

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