Interactions between pH and nutrients on benthic algae in streams and consequences for ecological status assessment and species richness patterns

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 444, Issue , 2013, Pages 73-84

  Schneider, Susanne C ^a   Kahlert, Maria ^b   Kelly, Martyn G ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c Bowburn Consultancy   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acidification; Acidity; Eutrophication; Multiple stressors; Periphyton; Phosphorus

Indexed keywords

ACID CONDITIONS; BENTHIC ALGAE; BIOTIC INDEX; COMBINED EFFECT; COMPLEX PATTERN; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA SETS; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOLOGICAL STATUS; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; INDICATOR VALUES; MULTIPLE STRESSORS; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PERIPHYTONS; RIVER SITES; SPECIES RICHNESS; STRUCTURAL DIFFERENCES; SYNERGISTIC INTERACTION;

ACIDIFICATION; ACIDITY; ALGAE; EUTROPHICATION; PHOSPHORUS; RIVER POLLUTION;

NUTRIENTS;

PHOSPHORUS;

ACIDIFICATION; ACIDITY; ALGA; BENTHOS; BIOTIC FACTOR; DIATOM; EUTROPHICATION; NUTRIENT; PERIPHYTON; PH; PHOSPHORUS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

ACID TOLERANCE; ACIDITY; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIOTIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIATOM; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HABITAT USE; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM (RIVER); WATER CONTENT; WATER TEMPERATURE;

BIODIVERSITY; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; DIATOMS; ECOSYSTEM; EUTROPHICATION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; NORWAY; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; RIVERS;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 84871583195     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.11.034     Document Type: Article

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