Palaeoecological evidence for changes over the past 200 years in chironomid communities of a shallow lake exposed to cyanobacterial toxins

Aquatic Ecology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 465-473

  Kaczorowska, Anna ^a   Kornijów, Ryszard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES IN LUBLIN   (Poland)

^b NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Eutrophication; Microcystins; Sediments; Subfossil chironomids; Zoobenthos

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKER; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CYANOBACTERIUM; EPIPHYTE; EUTROPHICATION; FLY; FOSSIL RECORD; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PIGMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT CORE; SHALLOW WATER; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TOXIN; ZOOBENTHOS;

CHIRONOMIDAE; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 84868315952     PISSN: 13862588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10452-012-9415-y     Document Type: Article

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