Abrupt regime shifts in space and time along rivers and connected lake systems

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 766-775

  Hilt, Sabine ^a,b   Köhler, Jan ^a   Kozerski, Hans Peter ^a   van Nes, Egbert H ^b   Scheffer, Marten ^b  

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

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGA; GROWTH RATE; MACROPHYTE; PROBABILITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RETENTION; RIVER FLOW; RIVER SYSTEM; SHALLOW WATER; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; TURBIDITY; VEGETATION COVER; WATER QUALITY;

ALGAE;

EID: 79955008782     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18553.x     Document Type: Article

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