Using sedimentary phosphorus/nitrogen as indicators of shallow lake eutrophication: concentrations or accumulation fluxes

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 3935-3944

  Di, Zhenzhen ^a,b   Zhang, Hong ^a   Shan, Baoqing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Historical eutrophication; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Sedimentation; Shallow lake; Taihu

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; EUTROPHICATION; LAKES; LEAD; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EUTROPHICATION; MASS ACCUMULATION RATES; NUTRIENT ACCUMULATION; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS; SEDIMENTATION PROCESS; SHALLOW LAKES; SPATIAL DIFFERENCES; TAIHU;

NUTRIENTS;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; EUTROPHICATION; GEOACCUMULATION; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LEAD ISOTOPE; LEAD-LEAD DATING; NITROGEN; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PHOSPHORUS; SHALLOW WATER; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

CHINA;

EID: 84940459745     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-015-4465-9     Document Type: Article

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