Fifty years of eutrophication and lake restoration reflected in sedimentary carbon and nitrogen isotopes of a small, hardwater lake (South Germany)

Journal of Limnology

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 262-279

  Braig, Emanuel ^a   Mayr, Christoph ^b,c   Kirchner, Gerald ^d   Hofmann, Andrea ^a   Raeder, Uta ^a   Melzer, Arnulf ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d BUNDESAMT FÜR STRAHLENSCHUTZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

13; 15; Denitrification; Lacustrine organic matter; Methanogenesis; Osterseen

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM WATER; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPE; DENITRIFICATION; EUTROPHICATION; HYPOLIMNION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE WATER; METHANOGENESIS; NITRATE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; ORGANIC MATTER; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEDIMENT CORE; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER COLUMN;

GERMANY;

EID: 84877588179     PISSN: 11295767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/jlimnol.2013.e21     Document Type: Article

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