Productivity of high-latitude lakes: Climate effect inferred from altitude gradient

Global Change Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 710-715

  Karlsson, Jan ^a,b   Jonsson, Anders ^a,b   Jansson, Mats ^b  

^a ABISKO SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH STATION   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Allochthonous carbon; Bacterioplankton; Catchment characteristics; Climate change; Energy mobilization; Lake productivity; Nutrients; Phytoplankton; Subarctic; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NUTRIENT; SUBARCTIC REGION;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS;

EID: 19344364189     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.00945.x     Document Type: Article

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