Algal community responses to shallow lake dystrophication1

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1433-1443

  Waters, Matthew N ^a   Piehler, Michael F ^b   Smoak, Joseph M ^c   Bianchi, Thomas S ^d  

^a VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALGA; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LIGNIN; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SHALLOW WATER;

NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CRYPTOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 84864754240     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: 12057533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F2012-021     Document Type: Article

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