Submerged Macrophyte Responses to Reduced Phosphorus Concentrations in Two Peri-Urban Lakes

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2010, Pages 452-461

  Hilt, Sabine ^a   Van De Weyer, Klaus ^b   Köhler, Antje ^c   Chorus, Ingrid ^d  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^b Lanaplan ^*  (Germany)

^c Environment and Consumer Protection   (Germany)

^d UMWELTBUNDESAMT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Characeae; Eutrophication; Lake restoration; Macrophytes; Phosphorus; Phytoplankton; Recolonization; Shallow lakes; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; EUTROPHICATION; GROWTH RESPONSE; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; MACROPHYTE; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; RARE SPECIES; RECOLONIZATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; URBAN AREA;

BERLIN; GERMANY;

CHARACEAE; CHARALES;

EID: 78449257293     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00577.x     Document Type: Article

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