Ecological relationships between phytoplankton communities and different spatial scales in European reservoirs: Implications at catchment level monitoring programmes

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 628, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 27-45

  Cabecinha, Edna ^a   Van Den Brink, Paul J ^b   Cabral, João Alexandre ^a   Cortes, Rui ^a   Lourenço, Martinho ^a   Pardal, Miguel Ângelo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Ecological status; Multivariate analysis; Partial constrained ordination; Phytoplankton; Reservoirs; Spatial scales

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL STATUS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARTIAL CONSTRAINED ORDINATION; RESERVOIRS; SPATIAL SCALES;

ALGAE CONTROL; CATCHMENTS; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; RUNOFF;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

CATCHMENT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 67349106460     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-009-9731-y     Document Type: Article

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