Resource ratio and human impact: How diatom assemblages in Lake Maggiore responded to oligotrophication and climatic variability

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 698, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 47-60

  Morabito, Giuseppe ^a   Oggioni, Alessandro ^a   Austoni, Martina ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Climate change; Diatoms; Meteorological variability; Nutrient ratio; Oligotrophication; Seasonal succession

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DIATOM; HUMAN ACTIVITY; SUCCESSION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

LAKE MAGGIORE;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; FRAGILARIA; TABELLARIA;

EID: 84867001195     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-012-1094-0     Document Type: Article

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