Anticipated human population and climate change effects on algal blooms of a toxic haptophyte in the south-central USA

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1389-1404

  Roelke, Daniel L ^a   Brooks, Bryan W ^b   Grover, James P ^c   Gable, George M ^d   Schwierzke Wade, Leslie ^e   Hewitt, Natalie C ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^d Texas Commission of Environmental Quality   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CYANOBACTERIUM; INFLOW; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; TOXIC SUBSTANCE; ZOOPLANKTON;

UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; CYANOBACTERIA; HAPTOPHYCEAE; PRYMNESIUM; PRYMNESIUM PARVUM;

EID: 84864762341     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: 12057533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F2012-019     Document Type: Article

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