Water quality implications from three decades of phosphorus loads and trophic dynamics in the Yahara chain of lakes

Inland Waters

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-14

  Lathrop, Richard C ^a,b   Carpenter, Stephen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural runoff; Daphnia; Lake Mendota; Nonpoint pollution; Phosphorus loads; Secchi disk; Total phosphorus; Yahara lakes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893384856     PISSN: 20442041     EISSN: 2044205X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5268/IW-4.1.680     Document Type: Article

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