Eutrophication of Shallow Tropical Lakes

The Lakes Handbook

Volumn 2-2, Issue , 2007, Pages 279-299

  Osborne, Patrick L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Eutrophic lakes; Eutrophication of shallow tropical lakes; Role of littoral zone; Shallow tropical lakes; Tropical limnology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889618966     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470750506.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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