Declining Lake Erie ecosystem health - Evidence from a multi-year, lake-wide, plankton study

Checking the Pulse of Lake Erie

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 369-408

  Conroy, Joseph D ^a   Kane, Douglas D ^a   Culver, David A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Algal loading; Cyanobacteria; Dreissena; Eutrophication; Phytoplankton; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872699517     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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