Depth profiles of cyanobacterial hepatotoxins (microcystins) in three Turkish freshwater lakes

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 505, Issue , 2003, Pages 89-95

  Albay, Meric ^a   Akcaalan, Reyhan ^a   Tufekci, Huseyin ^b   Metcalf, James S ^c   Beattie, Kenneth A ^c   Codd, Geoffrey A ^c  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MATERIALS INSTITUTE   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Lake Iznik; Lake Sapanca; Lake Taskisi; Microcystin; Planktothrix rubescens; Turkey

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ASSAYS; ENZYME INHIBITION; FISHERIES; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LAKES; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PROTEINS; SAMPLING; WATER QUALITY;

DEPTH PROFILES;

BACTERIA;

ALGAL BLOOM; CYANOBACTERIUM; EUTROPHICATION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; TOXIN; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER QUALITY;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

ALGAE; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO; PLANKTOTHRIX; PLANKTOTHRIX RUBESCENS;

EID: 0347723927     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:HYDR.0000007297.29998.5f     Document Type: Article

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