Nutrients exert a stronger control than climate on recent diatom communities in Esthwaite Water: Evidence from monitoring and palaeolimnological records

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2044-2056

  Dong, Xuhui ^a,b   Bennion, Helen ^a   Maberly, Stephen C ^c   Sayer, Carl D ^a   Simpson, Gavin L ^a   Battarbee, Richard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Additive model; Climate change; Diatoms; Limnological records; Nutrients

Indexed keywords

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 84055171022     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2011.02670.x     Document Type: Article

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