Mitigating harmful cyanobacterial blooms in a human- and climatically-impacted world

Life

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 988-1012

  Paerl, Hans W ^a  

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

Author keywords

Climate change; Harmful cyanobacteria; Mitigation; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Water quality management

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 84922058368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20751729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/life4040988     Document Type: Review

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