Seasonal synchronicity of algal assemblages in three Midwestern agricultural streams having varying concentrations of atrazine, nutrients, and sediment

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 458-460, Issue , 2013, Pages 125-139

  Andrus, J Malia ^a   Winter, Diane ^b   Scanlan, Michael ^c   Sullivan, Sean ^b   Bollman, Wease ^b   Waggoner, J B ^d   Hosmer, Alan J ^e   Brain, Richard A ^e  

^a Waterborne Environmental Inc   (United States)

^b Rhithron Associates Inc   (United States)

^c MapTech Inc   (United States)

^d Inovatia Laboratories Inc   (United States)

^e SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Algae; Atrazine; Midwest; Seasonality; Stream; Synchronicity

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE CONCENTRATIONS; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; MIDWEST; SEASONALITY; STREAM; SYNCHRONICITY; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS;

ALGAE; PHYTOPLANKTON; WATER QUALITY;

HERBICIDES;

ATRAZINE; TRACE ELEMENT;

ABUNDANCE; ALGA; ATRAZINE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIATOM; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HYDROLOGY; NUTRIENT; PERIPHYTON; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEASONALITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER QUALITY;

ALGAL COMMUNITY; ALGAL GROWTH; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLIMATE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DIATOM; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HYDROLOGY; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PERIPHYTON; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER FLOW; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; DIATOMS; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ILLINOIS; IOWA; MISSOURI; NITRATES; OXYGEN; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVERS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE;

MIDWEST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84877351836     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.03.070     Document Type: Article

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