A mass balance evaluation of the ecological significance of historical nitrogen fluxes in Lake Kinneret

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 655, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 109-119

  Nishri, A ^a   Hamilton, D P ^b  

^a The Yigal Allon Kinneret Limnological Laboratory   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ammonium; Denitrification; Long term data series; Nitrate; Nitrification

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM; CHEMICAL CHANGE; DATA SERIES; DE-STRATIFICATION; ELEVATED LEVEL; EXTERNAL LOADS; GROWTH-LIMITING NUTRIENTS; LAKE KINNERET; MASS BALANCE; MODELLING APPROACHES; NITROGEN FLUXES; NUTRIENT SOURCES; ORGANIC MATTER; ORGANIC MATTER MINERALIZATION; PHYTOPLANKTON BIOMASS; SOLUBLE REACTIVE PHOSPHORUS; TRANSITION PERIOD; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ALGAE CONTROL; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; DENITRIFICATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; LAKES; NITRATES; NITRIFICATION; NUTRIENTS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON;

ECOLOGY;

AMMONIUM; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BIOMASS; CHEMICAL ALTERATION; DATA SET; DENITRIFICATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GROWTH RATE; HYPOLIMNION; MASS BALANCE; NITRATE; NITROGEN CYCLE; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PH; PHYTOPLANKTON; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ISRAEL; NORTHERN DISTRICT; SEA OF GALILEE;

EID: 77957166988     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0408-3     Document Type: Article

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