Surprises and insights from long-term aquatic data sets and experiments

BioScience

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 709-721

  Dodds, Walter K ^a   Robinson, Christopher T ^b   Gaiser, Evelyn E ^c,d   Hansen, Gretchen J A ^e   Powell, Heather ^f   Smith, Joseph M ^a   Morse, Nathaniel B ^g   Johnson, Sherri L ^h,i   Gregory, Stanley V ^j   Bell, Tisza ^k,l   Kratz, Timothy K ^e,m   McDowell, William H ^g  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ARCHBOLD BIOLOGICAL STATION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^f NATIONAL ECOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY NETWORK   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^h PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

ⁱ HJ Andrews Experimental Forest   (United States)

^j OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^m NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

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Author keywords

data; freshwater; lakes; long term; streams

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865414513     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2012.62.8.4     Document Type: Article

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