First report of the cyanobacterium Aphanizomenon ovalisporum Forti in two Greek lakes and cyanotoxin occurrence

Journal of Plankton Research

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1295-1300

  Gkelis, Spyros ^a,b   Moustaka Gouni, Maria ^a   Sivonen, Kaarina ^b   Lanaras, Tom ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIUM; NEW RECORD; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

APHANIZOMENON OVALISPORUM; CYANOBACTERIA; LYSIMACHIA; PLANKTOTHRIX MOUGEOTII; PSEUDANABAENA SP.;

EID: 33644816067     PISSN: 01427873     EISSN: 14643774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbi085     Document Type: Article

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