Acceleration of cyanobacterial dominance in north temperate-subarctic lakes during the Anthropocene

Ecology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 375-384

  Taranu, Zofia E ^a,k   Gregory Eaves, Irene ^a   Leavitt, Peter R ^b   Bunting, Lynda ^b   Buchaca, Teresa ^c   Catalan, Jordi ^c,d   Domaizon, Isabelle ^e   Guilizzoni, Piero ^f   Lami, Andrea ^f   Mcgowan, Suzanne ^g,h   Moorhouse, Heather ^g   Morabito, Giuseppe ^f   Pick, Frances R ⁱ   Stevenson, Mark A ^g   Thompson, Patrick L ^a   Vinebrooke, Rolf D ^j  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^c CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^d CREAF   (Spain)

^e UMR CARRTEL   (France)

^f CNR   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^k UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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Author keywords

Anthropocene; Climate change; Cyanobacteria; Eutrophication; Long term trends; Meta analysis; Paleolimnology; Regression tree

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AIR TEMPERATURE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DECADAL VARIATION; DOMINANCE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MONITORING; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SUBARCTIC REGION; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TIME SERIES;

CYANOBACTERIA;

FRESH WATER; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; XANTHOPHYLL;

CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CYANOBACTERIUM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LAKE; MICROBIOLOGY; SEDIMENT; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CYANOBACTERIA; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LAKES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; XANTHOPHYLLS;

EID: 84925624357     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12420     Document Type: Article

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