Variable effects of marine-derived nutrients on algal production in salmon nursery lakes of Alaska during the past 300 years

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1588-1598

  Brock, Curtis S ^a   Leavitt, Peter R ^a   Schindler, Daniel E ^b   Quay, Paul D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGA; DIATOM; FRESHWATER SEDIMENT; LAKE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NURSERY GROUND; NUTRIENT; PIGMENT; SALMONID CULTURE;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS NERKA; PISCES;

EID: 34547162305     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2007.52.4.1588     Document Type: Article

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