Water quality and phytoplankton communities in Lake Pontchartrain during and after the Bonnet Carré Spillway opening, April to October 2008, in Louisiana, USA

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 431-440

  Mize, Scott V ^a   Demcheck, Dennis K ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANABAENA SP; BIOVOLUMES; BLUE GREEN ALGAE; CELL DENSITY; COMPOSITIONAL DIFFERENCE; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; CRITICAL PERIODS; DISCRETE SAMPLE; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FRESHWATER INFLOW; FRESHWATER INFLUX; GULF OF MEXICO; HARMFUL ALGAE; LAKE WATERS; LOUISIANA , USA; MISSISSIPPI; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; NEW ORLEANS; NITRATE CONCENTRATION; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENTS; PHYTOPLANKTON COMMUNITY; PHYTOPLANKTON COMPOSITION; QUALITY DATA; RIVER WATER; SKELETONEMA COSTATUM; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIFIC CONDUCTANCE; WATER TEMPERATURES;

ALGAE CONTROL; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DISSOLUTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; FORESTRY; LAKES; MONITORING; NITRATES; NUTRIENTS; RIVER DIVERSION; SPILLWAYS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

PHYTOPLANKTON;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; FLOOD CONTROL; LAKE WATER; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NITRATE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PHYTOPLANKTON; RIVER WATER; SPILLWAY; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN; LOUISIANA; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; ANABAENA SP.; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLOROPHYTA; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS RACIBORSKII; SKELETONEMA COSTATUM;

EID: 71249123973     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-009-0157-3     Document Type: Article

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