Brooktrout Lake case study: Biotic recovery from acid deposition 20 years after the 1990 clean air act amendments

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2665-2674

  Sutherland, James W ^a   Acker, Frank W ^b   Bloomfield, Jay A ^a   Boylen, Charles W ^c   Charles, Donald F ^b   Daniels, Robert A ^d   Eichler, Lawrence W ^c   Farrell, Jeremy L ^c   Feranec, Robert S ^d   Hare, Matthew P ^e   Kanfoush, Sharon L ^f   Preall, Richard J ^a   Quinn, Scott O ^a   Rowell, H Chandler ^a   Schoch, William F ^a   Shaw, William H ^g   Siegfried, Clifford A ^d   Sullivan, Timothy J ^h   Winkler, David A ^c   Nierzwicki Bauer, Sandra A ^c  

^a NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION   (United States)

^b ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM   (United States)

^e Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^f UTICA COLLEGE   (United States)

^g Sullivan County Community College   (United States)

^h E and S Environmental Chemistry Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; DEPOSITION; ECOLOGY; FISH; FISHERIES; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; ISOTOPES; LAKES; POPULATION STATISTICS; RECOVERY; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); STATISTICAL TESTS; SULFUR DIOXIDE; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCES;

ACID DEPOSITION; ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS; ASSIGNMENT TEST; CLEAN AIR ACT AMENDMENTS; FISH POPULATIONS; GEOGRAPHIC AREAS; HISTORICAL INFORMATION; SULFUR DIOXIDE EMISSIONS;

MEATS;

CARBON; COLLAGEN; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; ACID; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ACID DEPOSITION; BIOTIC FACTOR; FOOD WEB; LAKE POLLUTION; SALMONID; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCE;

ACID DEPOSITION; ARTICLE; BROOK TROUT; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD WEB; GENOTYPE; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; LAKE; LAKE SEDIMENT; LAW; NONHUMAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; REPRODUCTION; WATER QUALITY; ZOOPLANKTON; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; CASE REPORT; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; FOOD CHAIN; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; SALMONINE; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION;

ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

ACIDS; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION AND REMEDIATION; FOOD CHAIN; LAKES; NEW YORK; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TROUT; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84924068066     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es5036865     Document Type: Article

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