Physical pathways of nutrient supply in a small, ultraoligotrophic arctic lake during summer stratification

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1107-1124

  MacIntyre, Sally ^a   Sickman, James O ^a,b   Goldthwait, Sarah A ^a   Kling, George W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; LAKE; MIXING; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; STRATIFICATION; SUMMER;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; TOOLIK LAKE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33645057918     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.2.1107     Document Type: Article

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