Aquatic ecosystem responses to fire and flood size in the Okavango Delta: Observations from the seasonal floodplains

Wetlands Ecology and Management

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 587-595

  Ramberg, Lars ^a   Lindholm, Markus ^b   Hessen, Dag O ^c   Murray Hudson, Michael ^a   Bonyongo, Caspar ^a   Heinl, Michael ^d   Masamba, Wellington ^a   VanderPost, Cornelis ^a   Wolski, Piotr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Fire; Fish productivity; Flood pulse; Macrophyte; Nutrients; Okavango Delta; Seasonal floodplain; Zooplankton biomass

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DILUTION; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EMISSION; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FISHERY PRODUCTION; FLOODPLAIN; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HYDROPERIOD; MACROPHYTE; METHANE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT CYCLING; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SATURATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

BOTSWANA; NGAMILAND; OKAVANGO DELTA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77957286098     PISSN: 09234861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11273-010-9195-x     Document Type: Article

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