Cultural eutrophication, anoxia, and ecosystem recovery in Meretta Lake, High Arctic Canada

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 639-650

  Antoniades, Dermot ^a,b   Michelutti, Neal ^c   Quinlan, Roberto ^d   Blais, Jules M ^e   Bonilla, Sylvia ^b   Douglas, Marianne S V ^f   Pienitz, Reinhard ^a,g   Smol, John P ^c   Vincenta, Warwick F ^a,g  

^a CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIA; BENTHOS; BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIATOM; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EUTROPHICATION; FLY; ICE COVER; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PIGMENT; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEWAGE; SNOW COVER; STABLE ISOTOPE; SULFUR; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

CANADA; MERETTA LAKE; NUNAVUT;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 79952053220     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2011.56.2.0639     Document Type: Article

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