Comparing effects of oligotrophication and upstream hydropower dams on plankton and productivity in perialpine lakes

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Finger, David ^a,b   Schmid, Martin ^a   Wüest, Alfred ^a,b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMS; NUTRIENTS; SEWAGE TREATMENT; TURBIDITY;

DATA INTERPRETATION; OLIGOTROPHICATION; PHOSPHOROUS LIMITATION PREVAILS; UPSTREAM HYDROPOWER OPERATIONS;

LAKES;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMS; LAKES; NUTRIENTS; SEWAGE TREATMENT; TURBIDITY;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FISH; GROWTH RATE; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; NUTRIENT CYCLING; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PLANKTON; SIMULATION; STREAM; WASTE TREATMENT;

BERN [SWITZERLAND]; BRIENZERSEE; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

ALGAE;

EID: 36749045777     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR005868     Document Type: Article

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