The nearshore shunt and the decline of the phytoplankton spring bloom in the Laurentian Great Lakes: Insights from a three-dimensional lake model

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 731, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 151-172

  Bocaniov, Serghei A ^a,b   Smith, Ralph E H ^b   Spillman, Claire M ^c   Hipsey, Matthew R ^d   Leon, Luis F ^b,e  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lake Erie; Large lake; Mussels; Phytoplankton; Three dimensional modelling

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BIOMASS; BIVALVE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; PHYTOPLANKTON; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CANADA; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ERIE; LAURENTIAN MOUNTAINS; QUEBEC [CANADA];

DREISSENIDAE;

EID: 84898908738     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-013-1642-2     Document Type: Article

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