Artificial mixing to control cyanobacterial blooms: a review

Aquatic Ecology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 423-441

  Visser, Petra M ^a   Ibelings, Bas W ^b   Bormans, Myriam ^c   Huisman, Jef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Artificial mixing; Blue green algae; Cyanobacteria; Destratification; Lake management

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CYANOBACTERIUM; DIATOM; EUTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; GREEN ALGA; GROWTH RATE; HYPOLIMNION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; NUTRIENT CYCLING; OXYGEN; PHYTOPLANKTON; REMEDIATION; TURBULENT FLOW;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 84939494664     PISSN: 13862588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10452-015-9537-0     Document Type: Article

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