Declines in dissolved silica concentrations in western Virginia streams (1988-2003): Gypsy moth defoliation stimulates diatoms?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Grady, Amy E ^a,b   Scanlon, Todd M ^a   Galloway, James N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b URS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECADAL VARIATION; DIATOM; DISSOLVED INORGANIC MATTER; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; MINERALOGY; MOTH; PH; SILICA; STREAMWATER; WATERSHED;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; LYMANTRIA; LYMANTRIA DISPAR;

EID: 34249778950     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JG000251     Document Type: Article

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