A field facility to simulate climate warming and increased nutrient supply in shallow aquatic ecosystems

Oecologia

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1169-1178

  Hines, Jes ^a,b,c   Hammrich, Arne ^a,d,f   Steiner, Daniel ^a   Gessner, Mark O ^a,b,d,e  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

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

^c SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^f DHI WASY ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate warming; Enclosure; Global change; Lake; Mesocosm; Multiple stressors; Nitrogen loading; Wetland

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM; AQUATIC COMMUNITY; DIEL VARIATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ENCLOSURE EXPERIMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; MESOCOSM; NITROGEN; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; REEDBED; SEASONAL VARIATION; WETLAND;

PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS;

FRESH WATER; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; POACEAE; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; WETLAND;

FRESH WATER; GLOBAL WARMING; NITROGEN; POACEAE; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; WETLANDS;

EID: 84888326034     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-013-2720-x     Document Type: Article

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