Earlier and warmer springs increase cyanobacterial (Microcystis spp.) blooms in subtropical Lake Taihu, China

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1076-1085

  Deng, Jianming ^a,b   Qin, Boqiang ^a   Paerl, Hans W ^c   Zhang, Yunlin ^a   Ma, Jianrong ^a,b   Chen, Yuwei ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accumulated temperature; Canonical correspondence analysis; Climate change; Cyanobacterial blooms; Meiliang Bay

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCYSTIS;

EID: 84898058707     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12330     Document Type: Article

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