Combining contemporary ecology and palaeolimnology to understand shallow lake ecosystem change

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 487-499

  Sayer, Carl D ^a   Davidson, Thomas A ^a   Jones, John Iwan ^b,c   Langdon, Peter G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aquatic ecology; Eutrophication; Palaeolimnology; Shallow lakes; Temporal scale; Transfer functions

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 77950121260     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2010.02388.x     Document Type: Article

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