Chemical and biological recovery of Lake Saudlandsvatn, a formerly highly acidified lake in southernmost Norway, in response to decreased acid deposition

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 2908-2916

  Hesthagen, Trygve ^a   Fjellheim, Arne ^b   Schartau, Ann K ^a   Wright, Richard F ^a   Saksgård, Randi ^a   Rosseland, Bjørn O ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b Uni Research   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acidification; Lake; Macroinvertebrates; Salmo trutta; Stream; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

ACID DEPOSITION; ACID NEUTRALIZING CAPACITY; BIOLOGICAL RECOVERY; BROWN TROUTS; CHEMICAL RECOVERY; CRITICAL LOAD; DAPHNIA LONGISPINA; MACROINVERTEBRATES; SALMO TRUTTA; STREAM; ZOOPLANKTON;

ACIDIFICATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; RECOVERY; SULFUR;

LAKES;

ALUMINUM; SULFUR;

ACID DEPOSITION; ACIDIFICATION; FISH; LAKE WATER; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NEUTRALIZATION; PH; SULFUR; WATER TREATMENT; ZOOPLANKTON;

ACID DEPOSITION; ACID NEUTRALIZING CAPACITY; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BROWN TROUT; CADDISFLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA LONGISPINA; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INSECT; LAKE; LAKE ACIDIFICATION; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PH; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; DAPHNIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INSECTS; NORWAY; POPULATION DENSITY; TROUT; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

NORWAY;

DAPHNIA LONGISPINA; HYDROPSYCHE SILTALAI; SALMO TRUTTA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 79958793798     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.04.026     Document Type: Article

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