Multiple Stressors in Agricultural Streams: A Mesocosm Study of Interactions among Raised Water Temperature, Sediment Addition and Nutrient Enrichment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Piggott, Jeremy J ^a   Lange, Katharina ^a   Townsend, Colin R ^a   Matthaei, Christoph D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; RUNOFF; WATER;

ALGAL COMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; INVERTEBRATE; LAND USE; LEAF LITTER; LEAF STRUCTURE; LITTER DECOMPOSITION; MESOCOSM; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; NUTRITIONAL PARAMETERS; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; SEDIMENT; SOIL EROSION; SPECIES RICHNESS; WATER TEMPERATURE;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; NITROGEN; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; RIVERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

ALGAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84869814068     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049873     Document Type: Article

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