An Ecological Network Analysis of nitrogen cycling in the Laurentian Great Lakes

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 293, Issue , 2014, Pages 150-160

  Small, Gaston E ^a   Sterner, Robert W ^b   Finlay, Jacques C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Denitrification; Ecological Network Analysis; Environ; Laurentian Great Lakes; Nitrogen cycling

Indexed keywords

DENITRIFICATION; ECOLOGY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LOADING; NITROGEN;

DENITRIFICATION EFFICIENCIES; ECOLOGICAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; ENVIRON; LAURENTIAN GREAT LAKES; LINEAR INVERSE MODELS; NITROGEN CYCLING; PARSIMONIOUS MODELING; STEADY-STATE MODELING;

LAKES;

DENITRIFICATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; NETWORK ANALYSIS; NITROGEN CYCLE; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; RESIDENCE TIME;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ERIE; LAKE HURON; LAKE SUPERIOR;

EID: 84911025619     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.02.001     Document Type: Article

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