Integrated model projections of climate change impacts on a North American lake

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 222, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 3380-3393

  Taner, Mehmet Ümit ^a,b,c   Carleton, James N ^a   Wellman, Marjorie ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES   (United States)

^c BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Algae; Climate change; Ecosystem modeling; Eutrophication; Hydrology; Lakes; Thermal stratification

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; AQUATOX; BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES; BIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS; CATCHMENT HYDROLOGY; CHIRONOMIDS; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM MODEL; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL MODEL; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; GREEN ALGA; INTEGRATED MODELS; LAKE SEDIMENTS; LAKE WATER TEMPERATURE; LONGIROSTRIS; MECHANISTIC MODELS; NEW YORK STATE; NORTH AMERICAN; NUTRIENT CYCLING; NUTRIENT EXPORT; PEAK FLOWS; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; STREAM DISCHARGE; THERMAL BALANCE; TIME-PERIODS; TROPHIC LEVEL; WATERSHED SIMULATION; ZEBRA MUSSELS;

ALGAE; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; EUTROPHICATION; HYDROLOGY; LAKES; NUTRIENTS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RUNOFF; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; AQUATIC ORGANISM; BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; BIVALVE; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISCHARGE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; EUTROPHICATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GREEN ALGA; HYDROLOGY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE WATER; MAGNITUDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PEAK FLOW; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PLANKTON; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; STREAM; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TROPHIC LEVEL; WATER COLUMN;

FINGER LAKES; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; ONONDAGA LAKE; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; AVES; BOSMINA LONGIROSTRIS; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHLOROPHYTA; DOROSOMATINAE; DREISSENA; DREISSENA POLYMORPHA;

EID: 80051626440     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.07.015     Document Type: Article

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