Water quality of Loch Leven: Responses to enrichment, restoration and climate change

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 681, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 35-47

  Carvalho, L ^a   Miller, C ^b   Spears, B M ^a   Gunn, I D M ^a   Bennion, H ^c   Kirika, A ^a   May, L ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll a; Daphnia; Lake; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Rainfall; Recovery; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL A; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRUSTACEAN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; LAKE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PLANKTON; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER QUALITY;

HIGHLAND; LOCH LEVEN; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

DAPHNIA;

EID: 84855343966     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0923-x     Document Type: Article

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