Shallow lakes theory revisited: Various alternative regimes driven by climate, nutrients, depth and lake size

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 584, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 455-466

  Scheffer, Marten ^a   Van Nes, Egbert H ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; EUTROPHICATION; NUTRIENTS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

ANGIOSPERMS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; SHALLOW LAKES;

LAKES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEPTH; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; EUTROPHICATION; NUTRIENT; SHALLOW WATER; SIZE;

CHARACEAE; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 34249066128     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-007-0616-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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