The development and persistence of alternative ecosystem states in a large, shallow lake

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1249-1261

  Waters, Matthew N ^a   Piehler, Michael F ^b   Smoak, Joseph M ^c   Martens, Christopher S ^b  

^a Shorter College   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Macrophytes; Palaeolimnology; Photosynthetic pigments; Phytoplankton; Shallow lakes

Indexed keywords

ANATIDAE;

EID: 77953928068     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02349.x     Document Type: Article

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