Historic low-level phosphorus enrichment in the Great Lakes inferred from biogenic silica accumulation in sediments

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 1 II, 2006, Pages 728-748

  Schelske, Claire L ^a   Stoermer, Eugene F ^b   Kenney, William F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC MATERIAL; EUTROPHICATION; PALEOECOLOGY; PHOSPHORUS; SEDIMENTATION; SILICA;

GREAT LAKES; NORTH AMERICA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 32944470965     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.1_part_2.0728     Document Type: Conference Paper

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