The "nutrient pump:" Iron-poor sediments fuel low nitrogen-to-phosphorus ratios and cyanobacterial blooms in polymictic lakes

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 856-871

  Orihel, Diane M ^a   Schindler, David W ^a   Ballard, Nathaniel C ^a   Graham, Mark D ^a   O'Connell, David W ^b   Wilson, Lindsey R ^a   Vinebrooke, Rolf D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CYANOBACTERIUM; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; MINERAL; PHOSPHORUS; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; TOXICITY; TOXIN;

ANABAENA; APHANIZOMENON; CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCYSTIS;

EID: 84940384123     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lno.10076     Document Type: Article

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