Determining critical nutrient thresholds needed to control harmful cyanobacterial blooms in eutrophic Lake Taihu, China

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1051-1059

  Xu, H ^a   Paerl, H W ^b   Qin, B ^a   Zhu, G ^a   Hall, N S ^b   Wu, Y ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; EUTROPHICATION; LAKES; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; POTABLE WATER; WATER SUPPLY;

CONCENTRATION THRESHOLD; CYANOBACTERIAL BLOOMS; ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; NUTRIENT ADDITION; NUTRIENT LIMITATIONS; PHYTOPLANKTON BIOMASS; TOTAL PHOSPHORUS;

LOADING;

CHLOROPHYLL A; LAKE WATER; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; CHLOROPHYLL; FRESH WATER;

BIOASSAY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DILUTION; DOMINANCE; EUTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ALGAL GROWTH; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BIOASSAY; BIOMASS; CHINA; CYANOBACTERIAL BLOOM; CYANOBACTERIUM; LAKE; MESOCOSM; MICROCOSM; MICROCYSTIS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT ADDITION BIOASSAY; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; NUTRIENT DILUTION; NUTRIENT DILUTION BIOASSAY; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; NUTRIENT LOADING; NUTRIENT THRESHOLD; NUTRITIONAL PARAMETERS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; STOICHIOMETRY; SUMMER; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; WINTER; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; EUTROPHICATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; SEASON;

CHINA; TAIHU LAKE;

CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCYSTIS;

BIOMASS; CHINA; CHLOROPHYLL; CYANOBACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; EUTROPHICATION; FRESH WATER; LAKES; MICROCYSTIS; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEASONS;

EID: 84921730283     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es503744q     Document Type: Article

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