Deep living Planktothrix rubescens modulated by environmental constraints and climate forcing

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 698, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-46

  Dokulil, Martin T ^a,b   Teubner, Katrin ^a,b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Deep chlorophyll maximum; Eutrophication; Long term; NAO; Oscillaxanthin; Re oligotrophication

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATE FORCING; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EUPHOTIC ZONE; HYDROBIOLOGY; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SHADE TOLERANCE; STRATIFICATION; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

AUSTRIA; MONDSEE [UPPER AUSTRIA]; UPPER AUSTRIA;

CYANOBACTERIA; PLANKTOTHRIX; PLANKTOTHRIX RUBESCENS;

EID: 84867098793     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-012-1020-5     Document Type: Article

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