The impact of nitrogen contamination and river modification on a Mississippi River floodplain lake

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 463-464, Issue , 2013, Pages 734-742

  Karthic, Indu ^a   Brugam, Richard B ^a   Retzlaff, William ^a   Johnson, Kevin ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon; Diatoms; Floodplain; Nitrogen; Stable isotopes; Steel plant effluent

Indexed keywords

DIATOM MICROFOSSILS; DIATOMS; FLOOD PLAINS; INDUSTRIAL SOURCES; MICROFOSSIL ASSEMBLAGES; RIVER MODIFICATIONS; STABLE ISOTOPES; STEEL MANUFACTURING;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); CARBON; ECOSYSTEMS; EFFLUENTS; FLOODS; ISOTOPES; LAKES; RIVERS; SEDIMENTATION; STEELMAKING;

NITROGEN;

NITROGEN; NITROGEN 15;

CARBON; DIATOM; EFFLUENT; FLOODPLAIN; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MICROFOSSIL; NITROGEN; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; AULACOSEIRA GRANULATA; BENTHOS; COCCONEIS; DIATOM; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GOMPHONEMA; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; LAKE; LYRELLA; MICROFOSSIL; NONHUMAN; PLANKTON; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

HORSESHOE LAKE; ILLINOIS; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; MISSOURI; SAINT LOUIS COUNTY [MISSOURI]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880395590     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.06.070     Document Type: Article

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