Increases in lake phytoplankton biomass caused by future climate-driven changes to seasonal river flow

Global Change Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1809-1820

  Jones, Ian D ^a   Page, Trevor ^b   Alex Elliott, J ^a   Thackeray, Stephen J ^a   Louise Heathwaite, A ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bassenthwaite lake; Cyanobacteria; Diffuse; Modelling; Nutrients; Point; PROTECH; Residence time

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CYANOBACTERIUM; EUTROPHICATION; GLOBAL WARMING; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; RIVER FLOW; SEASONAL VARIATION;

BASSENTHWAITE; CUMBRIA; ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 79953281327     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02332.x     Document Type: Article

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