Hypoxia sustains cyanobacteria blooms in the Baltic Sea

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2598-2602

  Funkey, Carolina P ^a   Conley, Daniel J ^a   Reuss, Nina S ^b   Humborg, Christoph ^c   Jilbert, Tom ^d   Slomp, Caroline P ^d  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUTROPHICATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; SURFACE WATERS;

CYANOBACTERIA BLOOMS; LITTORINA TRANSGRESSIONS; LOW OXYGEN CONDITIONS; MEDIEVAL CLIMATE ANOMALIES; NITROGEN ISOTOPIC; SUMMER MONTHS; TRIGGERING MECHANISM; WATER COLUMNS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PIGMENT; SURFACE WATER; SEA WATER;

ABUNDANCE; ALGAL BLOOM; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; ARTIFACT; BIOACCUMULATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; EUTROPHICATION; HYPOXIA; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PIGMENT; PRESERVATION; REDOX CONDITIONS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SURFACE WATER; WATER COLUMN;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BALTIC SEA; CYANOBACTERIUM; HOLOCENE; HYPOXIA; LITTORINA; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; PRESERVATION; RECYCLING; SEDIMENT; BALTIC STATES; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUTROPHICATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEA; SEASON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

BALTIC STATES; CLIMATE CHANGE; CYANOBACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUTROPHICATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; SEASONS; SEAWATER;

EID: 84895550364     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es404395a     Document Type: Article

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