Effects of nutrients, temperature and their interactions on spring phytoplankton community succession in Lake Taihu, China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Deng, Jianming ^a,b   Qin, Boqiang ^a   Paerl, Hans W ^c   Zhang, Yunlin ^a   Wu, Pan ^a,b   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 at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; ARTICLE; CHINA; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMMUNITY SUCCESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOMONAS; MICROCYSTIS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; SPRING; TROPHIC LEVEL; ULOTHRIX; WATER TEMPERATURE; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; LAKE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; TEMPERATURE;

BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; LAKES; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84914679517     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113960     Document Type: Article

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