Harmful filamentous cyanobacteria favoured by reduced water turnover with lake warming

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 809-813

  Posch, Thomas ^a   Köster, Oliver ^b   Salcher, Michaela M ^a   Pernthaler, Jakob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Zurich Water Supply   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGAL BLOOM; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BUOYANCY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DOMINANCE; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); HABITAT RESTORATION; HEATING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; IRRADIANCE; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PHOSPHORUS; POPULATION REGULATION; PREDATOR; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; STRATIFICATION; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TOXIC ORGANISM; TURNOVER; WARMING;

ALGAE; CYANOBACTERIA; PLANKTOTHRIX RUBESCENS;

EID: 84868146221     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1581     Document Type: Article

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