Effects of Increasing Nitrogen and Phosphorus Concentrations on Phytoplankton Community Growth and Toxicity during Planktothrix Blooms in Sandusky Bay, Lake Erie

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 7197-7207

  Davis, Timothy W ^a,c   Bullerjahn, George S ^b   Tuttle, Taylor ^b   McKay, Robert Michael ^b   Watson, Susan B ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NOAA GREAT LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METABOLISM; NITROGEN; TOXICITY; UREA;

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; CYANOBACTERIAL BLOOMS; METAGENOMIC ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS; PHYLOGENETIC DISTRIBUTION; PHYTOPLANKTON COMMUNITY; TOXIC CYANOBACTERIAL BLOOMS;

LAKES;

AMMONIA; MICROCYSTIN; NITRATE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS; UREA; RAIN;

ALGAL BLOOM; BACTERIUM; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CYANOBACTERIUM; DISSOLVED GAS; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GROWTH RESPONSE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRATE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; ORTHOPHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYTOPLANKTON; STAKEHOLDER; TOXICITY; TOXIN; UREA;

ALGAL BLOOM; ARTICLE; BAY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CYANOBACTERIUM; HETEROTROPHY; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTOTHRIX; PROTEOBACTERIA; BIOMASS; EUTROPHICATION; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LAKE; MICROBIOLOGY; SEASON; WATER QUALITY;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ERIE; OHIO; SANDUSKY BAY; UNITED STATES;

CYANOBACTERIA; PLANKTOTHRIX; PROTEOBACTERIA;

BAYS; BIOMASS; CYANOBACTERIA; EUTROPHICATION; GEOGRAPHY; LAKES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; RAIN; SEASONS; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84935020399     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b00799     Document Type: Article

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