Organic-matter loading determines regime shifts and alternative states in an aquatic ecosystem

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 7742-7747

  Sirota, Jennie ^a   Baiser, Benjamin ^b   Gotelli, Nicholas J ^c   Ellison, Aaron M ^b  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ORGANIC MATTER;

AEROBIC CAPACITY; ANAEROBIC CAPACITY; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUTROPHICATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARRACENIA PURPUREA; SARRACENIACEAE;

ATMOSPHERE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SARRACENIACEAE; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84877333244     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1221037110     Document Type: Article

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