Intrinsic growth rate: A new approach to evaluate the effects of temperature, photoperiod and phosphorus-nitrogen concentrations on duckweed growth under controlled eutrophication

Water Research

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2333-2340

  Lasfar, Samir ^a   Monette, Frédéric ^a   Millette, Louise ^b   Azzouz, Abdelkrim ^c  

^a ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Duckweed; Growth; Modeling; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Photoperiod; Temperature; Treatment; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EUTROPHICATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITROGEN; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

COMPREHENSIVE MODEL; DUCKWEED; PHOTOPERIODS;

GROWTH KINETICS;

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EUTROPHICATION; GROWTH KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITROGEN; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

EUTROPHICATION; GROWTH RATE; LABORATORY METHOD; MODEL VALIDATION; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PHOTOPERIOD; POPULATION GROWTH; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WASTEWATER; WEED;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUCKWEED; EUTROPHICATION; GROWTH RATE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; WEED;

LEMNA;

EID: 34247600521     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2007.01.059     Document Type: Article

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