Phosphorus retention as a function of external loading, hydraulic turnover time, area and relative depth in 54 lakes and reservoirs

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 660, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 105-115

  Kõiv, Toomas ^a   Nõges, Tiina ^a,b   Laas, Alo ^a  

^a ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Lake morphometry; Phosphorus mass balance; Phosphorus retention; Relative depth

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL MASS BALANCE; CLIMATIC REGION; DATA SET; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LAKE WATER; MORPHOMETRY; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PHOSPHORUS; RESERVOIR; RESIDENCE TIME; STRATIFICATION; TURNOVER; WATER DEPTH;

EID: 79959807786     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0411-8     Document Type: Article

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