Dynamic modelling of multiple phytoplankton groups in rivers with an application to the Thames river system in the UK

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 74, Issue , 2015, Pages 75-91

  Whitehead, Paul G ^a   Bussi, Gianbattista ^a   Bowes, Michael J ^b   Read, Daniel S ^b   Hutchins, Michael G ^b   Elliott, J Alex ^b   Dadson, Simon J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

General sensitivity analysis; Phytoplankton growth; Phytoplankton modelling; River Thames; River water quality

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHORUS; QUALITY CONTROL; RIVERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

DISSOLVED PHOSPHORUS; PHOSPHORUS CONCENTRATION; PHYTOPLANKTON ABUNDANCES; PHYTOPLANKTON GROWTH; RIVER THAMES; RIVER WATER QUALITY; SILICON CONCENTRATION; WATER TEMPERATURES;

PHYTOPLANKTON;

ABIOTIC FACTOR; ABUNDANCE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DATA SET; DIATOM; GREEN ALGA; MODEL TEST; MOVEMENT; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PICOPLANKTON; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; RIVER SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SILICON; WATER QUALITY;

ENGLAND; THAMES RIVER [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 84942305537     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.09.010     Document Type: Article

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