Can submerged macrophytes influence turbidity and trophic state in deep lakes? Suggestions from a case study

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 725-733

  Hilt, Sabine ^a   Henschke, Ingo ^b   Rücker, Jacqueline ^b   Nixdorf, Brigitte ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^b BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERATOPHYLLUM DEMERSUM; MACROPHYTES; NITELLOPSIS OBTUSA; POSITIVE EFFECTS; POTENTIAL MECHANISM; RE-COLONIZATION; RETENTION TIME; SHALLOW LAKES; STRATIFIED LAKES; SUBMERGED MACROPHYTES; TOTAL PHOSPHORUS; TROPHIC STATE; TURBID WATER; WATER REGIME; WATER TRANSPARENCY;

LAKES; LIGHT; PHOSPHORUS; TURBIDITY;

TRANSPARENCY;

PHOSPHORUS; WATER;

ALLELOPATHY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CERATOPHYLLUM DEMERSUM; CYANOBACTERIUM; GRAZING; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MACROPHYTE; NITELLOPSIS OBTUSA; NONHUMAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANT; TROPHIC LEVEL; TURBIDITY; WATER SUPPLY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; GERMANY; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANTS; SUNLIGHT;

CERATOPHYLLUM DEMERSUM; CYANOBACTERIA; NITELLOPSIS OBTUSA;

EID: 77649203723     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2009.0122     Document Type: Article

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