Seasonal and spatial variation in algal growth potential and growth-limiting nutrients in a shallow endorheic lake: Lake Ṕatzcuaro (Mexico)

Lakes and Reservoirs: Science, Policy and Management for Sustainable Use

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 83-93

  Bernal Brooks, Fernando W ^a   D́avalos Lind, Laura ^b   Lind, Owen T ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD MICHOACANA DE SAN NICOLÁS DE HIDALGO   (Mexico)

^b BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colimitation; Nitrogen; Nutrients; Phosphorus; atzcuaro

Indexed keywords

LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

LAKE PATZCUARO; MEXICO; MICHOACAN STATE;

ALGAE;

EID: 0345330887     PISSN: 13205331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1320-5331.2003.00217.x     Document Type: Article

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