A high resolution temporal study of phytoplankton bloom dynamics in the eutrophic Taw Estuary (SW England)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 434, Issue , 2012, Pages 228-239

  Maier, Gerald ^a   Glegg, Gillian A ^a   Tappin, Alan D ^a   Worsfold, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Estuary; Eutrophic; Model; Nutrients; Phytoplankton; River flow

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOMS; BIOLOGICAL SAMPLING; BLOOM DYNAMICS; CHLOROPHYLL A; CHLOROPHYLL-A CONCENTRATION; COASTAL WATERS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ESTUARINE WATERS; EUTROPHIC; HIGH FLOW; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LONG RESIDENCE TIME; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; NUTRIENT DEPLETION; NUTRIENT LIMITATIONS; PHYSICAL CONTROL; PHYTOPLANKTON BLOOM; PLANKTON BIOMASS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER FLOW; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CATCHMENTS; CHLOROPHYLL; DYNAMICS; EUTROPHICATION; MODELS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; NUTRIENTS; PHYTOPLANKTON; STREAM FLOW; TIDES;

ESTUARIES;

CHLOROPHYLL;

ALGAL BLOOM; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL A; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIATOM; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EUTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; NUTRIENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; RIVER FLOW; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ALGAL BLOOM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ASTERIONELLOPSIS GLACIALIS; BIOASSAY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CATCHMENT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COASTAL WATERS; DIATOM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ESTUARY; EUTROPHIA; FLOW RATE; HIGH RESOLUTION TEMPORAL STUDY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDRODYNAMICS; LONG RESIDENCE TIME; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; SUMMER; THALASSIOSIRA GUILLARDII; TIDE; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER FLOW; WATER SAMPLING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ENGLAND; EUTROPHICATION; PHYTOPLANKTON;

DEVON; ENGLAND; TAW ESTUARY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ALGAE; ASTERIONELLOPSIS GLACIALIS; BACILLARIOPHYTA; THALASSIOSIRA;

EID: 84865173051     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.08.044     Document Type: Article

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