Phytoplankton dynamics in two tropical rivers with different degrees of human impact (southern Brazil)

River Research and Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 698-714

  Soares, Maria Carolina S ^a   Huszar, Vera L M ^a   Roland, Fabio ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii; Eutrophication; Potamoplankton; Tropical rivers

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; EUTROPHICATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS RACIBORSKII;

EID: 34848828485     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.987     Document Type: Article

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