Phosphatase activities of cyanobacteria as indicators of nutrient status in a Pyrenees river

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 652, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 255-268

  Mateo, Pilar ^a   Berrendero, Esther ^a   Perona, Elvira ^a   Loza, Virginia ^a   Whitton, Brian A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calcareous rivers; Cyanobacteria; Monitoring; Organic phosphate; Phosphatase activities; Rivularia; Tolypothrix distorta; Water quality

Indexed keywords

CALCAREOUS RIVERS; ORGANIC PHOSPHATE; ORGANIC PHOSPHATES; PHOSPHATASE ACTIVITIES; PHOSPHATASE ACTIVITY;

CATCHMENTS; MONITORING; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHATASES; PHOSPHORUS; RUNOFF; SURFACES; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

RIVERS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOASSAY; BIOINDICATOR; BIOMONITORING; CATCHMENT; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; ORGANIC PHOSPHORUS; PHOTOGRAPH; SAMPLING; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

CATALONIA; GERONA [CATALONIA]; MUGA RIVER; PYRENEES; SPAIN;

CYANOBACTERIA; NOSTOC; NOSTOC VERRUCOSUM; PENICILLATA; RIVULARIA (CYANOBACTERIUM); RIVULARIA BIASOLETTIANA; SCHIZOTHRIX; TOLYPOTHRIX DISTORTA;

EID: 77954690014     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0338-0     Document Type: Article

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