Long-term variations of TN and TP in four lakes fed by Yangtze River at various timescales

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 3993-4009

  Huang, Jian ^a,b   Wang, Xixi ^b   Xi, Beidou ^c   Xu, Qiujin ^c   Tang, Yan ^d   Jia, Keli ^e   Huo, Shouliang ^c   Da, An ^c   Gao, Ruizhong ^e   Liu, Hongliang ^c   Li, Xiaoguang ^a   Liu, Minmin ^c   Mao, Jingying ^f  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Old Dominion University   (United States)

^c CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^d YANGTZE RIVER SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

^e INNER MONGOLIA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f Institute of Environmental Protection Science   (China)

Author keywords

Cultural eutrophication; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Step change; Temporal trends

Indexed keywords

EUTROPHICATION; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; RIVER POLLUTION;

DAM CONSTRUCTION; NON-POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; NON-STATIONARITIES; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS; SIGNIFICANCE LEVELS; STATISTICAL APPROACH; STEP CHANGES; TEMPORAL TRENDS;

LAKES;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EUTROPHICATION; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NITROGEN; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PHOSPHORUS; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; TIMESCALE;

ANHUI; CHAOHU LAKE; CHINA; DONGTING LAKE; HUNAN; JIANGXI; POYANG LAKE; TAIHU LAKE; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 84940366792     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-015-4714-y     Document Type: Article

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