Water management strategies against toxic Microcystis blooms in the Dutch delta

Ecological Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 313-327

  Verspagen, Jolanda M H ^a,b   Passarge, Jutta ^a   Jöhnk, Klaus D ^a   Visser, Petra M ^a   Peperzak, Louis ^c   Boers, Paul ^d   Laanbroek, Hendrikus J ^b   Huisman, Jef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c National Institute for Coastal and Marine Management RIKZ   (Netherlands)

^d INST INLAND WATER MGMT WASTE W   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Benthic pelagic coupling; Cyanobacteria; Harmful algal blooms; Population dynamics; Recruitment; Residence time; Salinity; Sedimentation; Water management

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHORUS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ALGAL BLOOM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEDIMENTATION; TOXIC ORGANISM; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EUTROPHICATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROCYSTIS; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVER; SEASON; SEDIMENT; TEMPERATURE; TIME; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER SUPPLY;

ANIMALS; EUTROPHICATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LIGHT; MICROCYSTIS; PHOSPHORUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVERS; SEASONS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER SUPPLY;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; VOLKERAK-ZOOMMEER; WESTERN EUROPE;

ALGAE; CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCYSTIS;

EID: 33645097311     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: 10510761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-1953     Document Type: Article

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