Clear, crashing, turbid and back - long-term changes in macrophyte assemblages in a shallow lake

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2027-2036

  Hilt, Sabine ^a   Köhler, Jan ^a   Adrian, Rita ^a   Monaghan, Michael T ^a   Sayer, Carl D ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Eutrophication; Restoration; Shallow lakes; Submerged macrophytes

Indexed keywords

CERATOPHYLLUM DEMERSUM; NAJAS MARINA; PECTINATUS; POTAMOGETON PECTINATUS;

EID: 84883294978     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12188     Document Type: Article

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