Temperature modulated effects of nutrients on phytoplankton changes in a mountain lake

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 698, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 61-75

  Tolotti, Monica ^a   Thies, Hansjörg ^b   Nickus, Ulrike ^b   Psenner, Roland ^b  

^a E Mach Foundation   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Climate change; Morpho functional groups; Mountain lakes; Multivariate analysis; Nutrients; Phytoplankton

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA INTERPRETATION; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; EUTROPHICATION; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LAKE WATER; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SILICA; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPHIC STATUS;

AUSTRIA; PIBURGER SEE; TYROL;

EID: 84866946966     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-012-1146-5     Document Type: Article

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