Response of fish and plankton to nutrient loading reduction in eight shallow Danish lakes with special emphasis on seasonal dynamics

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1616-1627

  Jeppesen, Erik ^a,b   Jensen, Jens Peder ^a   Søndergaard, Martin ^a   Lauridsen, Torben L ^a  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Fish; Oligotrophication; Phytoplankton; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CYANOBACTERIUM; FISH CULTURE; GRAZING PRESSURE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; POPULATION DECLINE; SEASONAL VARIATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

ABRAMIS BRAMA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CALANOIDA; CHRYSOPHYCEAE; COPEPODA; CRYPTOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; CYCLOPOIDA; CYPRINIDAE; DAPHNIA; ESOX LUCIUS; HYPEROGLYPHE POROSA; PERCA FLUVIATILIS; RUTILUS RUTILUS; SCARDINIUS;

EID: 33144474681     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2005.01413.x     Document Type: Article

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