Measuring the trophic status of ponds: Relationships between summer rate of periphytic net primary productivity and water physico-chemistry

Water Research

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1667-1679

  Sager, Lionel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

AFDW; Alternative stable states; Assessment; Eutrophication; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Submerged macrophytes

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; EUTROPHICATION; LAKES; PHOSPHORUS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; WATER QUALITY;

AFDW; ALTERNATIVE STABLE STATE; ASSESSMENT; MACROPHYTES; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; PRIMARY WATER; SUBMERGED MACROPHYTE; SUBMERGED MACROPHYTES; TROPHIC STATE; TROPHIC STATUS;

NITROGEN;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EUTROPHICATION; MACROPHYTE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PERIPHYTON; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POND; SUMMER; TROPHIC STATUS; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 62649118658     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2008.12.042     Document Type: Article

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