Effects of land use, urbanization, and climate variability on coastal eutrophication in the Baltic Sea

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1033-1046

  Savage, Candida ^a,b   Leavitt, Peter R ^c   Elmgren, Ragnar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ALGA; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL SEDIMENT; COASTAL ZONE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIATOM; EUTROPHICATION; LAND USE; MARINE POLLUTION; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; ORGANIC MATTER; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PIGMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; URBANIZATION; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; SWEDEN;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 77955585151     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2010.55.3.1033     Document Type: Article

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