Regime shift from phytoplankton to macrophyte dominance in a large river: Top-down versus bottom-up effects

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 416, Issue , 2012, Pages 314-322

  Ibáñez, Carles ^a   Alcaraz, Carles ^a   Caiola, Nuno ^a   Rovira, Albert ^a   Trobajo, Rosa ^a   Alonso, Miguel ^b   Duran, Concha ^c   Jiménez, Pere J ^d   Munné, Antoni ^c   Prat, Narcís ^e  

^a IRTA Aquatic Ecosystems   (Spain)

^b United Research Services SL   (Spain)

^c Confederación Hidrográfica del Ebro ^*  (Spain)

^d Grup Natura Freixe   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bottom up; Macrophytes; Phosphorus; Phytoplankton; Regime shift; Top down

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITY; BIOLOGICAL COMMUNITY; BLACK FLIES; BOTTOM-UP; CATALONIA , SPAIN; DATA SETS; DISSOLVED PHOSPHORUS; EBRO RIVER; FILTERING EFFECTS; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL ANALYSIS; INITIAL HYPOTHESIS; LARGE RIVERS; MACROPHYTES; REGIME SHIFT; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; RIVER BED; SHALLOW LAKES; TOPDOWN; TOTAL CHLOROPHYLL; WATER TRANSPARENCY; ZEBRA MUSSELS;

ALGAE CONTROL; CHLOROPHYLL; PHOSPHORUS; RIVERS; SHELLFISH; WATER QUALITY;

PHYTOPLANKTON;

CHLOROPHYLL; PHOSPHORUS;

BENTHOS; BIVALVE; BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; CHLOROPHYLL; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; FLY; HYDROLOGY; MACROPHYTE; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; RIVER BED; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BIOFILTRATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHLOROPHYLL CONTENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DREISSENA; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EUTROPHICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAKE; MACROPHYTE; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DOMINANCE; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMALS; CHLOROPHYLL; DREISSENA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FRESH WATER; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DENSITY; RIVERS; SPAIN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER QUALITY;

CATALONIA; EBRO RIVER; SPAIN;

DREISSENA POLYMORPHA; INVERTEBRATA; SIMULIUM NIGRICOXUM;

EID: 84856230466     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.11.059     Document Type: Article

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