Long-term trends and short-term variability of water quality in Skive Fjord, Denmark - Nutrient load and mussels are the primary pressures and drivers that influence water quality

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 127, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 503-521

  Mohlenberg F ^a   Petersen, S ^b   Petersen, A H ^c   Gameiro, C ^d  

^a DHI   (Denmark)

^b Søren Petersen Consult   (Denmark)

^c Anders Højgård Petersen   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Benthic grazing; Meteorological forcing; Mussels; Nutrient load; PLS statistics; Predictive models; Time trends; Water Framework Directive; Water quality

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; NUTRIENTS; PHYTOPLANKTON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

BENTHIC GRAZING; METEOROLOGICAL FORCING; MUSSELS; NUTRIENT LOAD; PREDICTIVE MODELS; WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE;

WATER QUALITY;

CHLOROPHYLL A; FRESH WATER; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SILICATE;

CHLOROPHYLL A; MOLLUSC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NITROGEN; NITROGEN CYCLE; PHOSPHORUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENMARK; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSSEL; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; PREDICTION; PRODUCTIVITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMALS; DENMARK; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FOOD; FRESH WATER; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYTILUS EDULIS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SKIVE FJORD; VIBORG;

MYTILUS EDULIS;

EID: 33847665629     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-006-9298-2     Document Type: Article

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