Specific responses to nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment in cyanobacteria: Factors influencing changes in species dominance along eutrophic gradients

Water Research

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 622-631

  Loza, Virginia ^a   Perona, Elvira ^a   Mateo, Pilar ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ammonium; Benthic cyanobacteria; Competition; Growth; Nitrate; Nutrient regimes; Phosphate; Rivers; Streams

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EUTROPHICATION; GROWTH (MATERIALS); NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS;

BENTHIC CYANOBACTERIA; CONDITION; CYANOBACTERIAL SPECIES; CYANOBACTERIUM; HIGH NUTRIENTS; NITROGEN ENRICHMENT; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS; NUTRIENT CONDITIONS; NUTRIENT REGIME; STREAM;

NITRATES;

AMMONIA; NITROGEN; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS;

BENTHOS; BIOASSAY; BIOFILM; BIOMASS; CYANOBACTERIUM; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EUTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; EUTROPHICATION; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; NITROGEN; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS; STREAMWATER;

ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; EUTROPHICATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MIXED CELL CULTURE; MONOCULTURE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SPECIES DOMINANCE; METABOLISM;

GUADARRAMA RIVER; MADRID [SPAIN]; SPAIN;

CYANOBACTERIA;

CYANOBACTERIA; EUTROPHICATION; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

EID: 84888823320     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.10.014     Document Type: Article

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