Experimental evidence that pollution with urea can degrade water quality in phosphorus-rich lakes of the Northern Great Plains

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1213-1230

  Finlay, Kerri ^a   Patoine, Alain ^a,b   Donald, Derek B ^a   Bogard, Matthew J ^a   Leavitt, Peter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FERTILIZER; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LAKE POLLUTION; MESOCOSM; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; TOXICITY; UREA; WATER QUALITY;

GREAT PLAINS;

EID: 77955570980     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2010.55.3.1213     Document Type: Article

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