The role of cladocerans in tracking long-term change in shallow lake trophic status

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 676, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 299-315

  Davidson, Thomas A ^a,b   Bennion, Helen ^b   Jeppesen, Erik ^a,c,d   Clarke, Gina H ^b   Sayer, Carl D ^b   Morley, David ^b   Odgaard, Bent V ^a   Rasmussen, Peter ^e   Rawcliffe, Ruth ^b   Salgado, Jorge ^b   Simpson, Gavin L ^b   Amsinck, Susanne L ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^d Sino Danish Centre for Education and Research (SDC)   (China)

^e GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cladocerans; Ecological state; Eutrophication; Indicator; Lakes; Macrofossils; Macrophytes; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CRUSTACEAN; EUTROPHICATION; FOOD WEB; FOSSIL RECORD; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAKE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MACROPHYTE; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEDIMENT CORE; SHALLOW WATER; TAXONOMY; TIMESCALE; TROPHIC STATUS; ZOOPLANKTON;

EUROPE;

EID: 80255129416     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0851-9     Document Type: Article

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