Functional trait composition of aquatic plants can serve to disentangle multiple interacting stressors in lowland streams

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 543, Issue , 2016, Pages 230-238

  Baattrup Pedersen, Annette ^a   Göthe, Emma ^a   Riis, Tenna ^a   O'Hare, Matthew T ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Channelisation; Eutrophication; Habitat degradation; Macrophyte; River; Weed cutting

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; CATCHMENTS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; LAND USE; NUTRIENTS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS;

CHANNELISATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; ECOLOGICAL PREFERENCES; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GOOD ECOLOGICAL STATUS; HABITAT DEGRADATION; MACROPHYTES; TRAIT-BASED APPROACHES;

EUTROPHICATION;

AQUATIC PLANT; CHANNELIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EUTROPHICATION; HABITAT LOSS; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MACROPHYTE; PLANT COMMUNITY; STREAM;

AQUATIC PLANT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CATCHMENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EUTROPHICATION; FUNCTIONAL TRAIT COMPOSITION; HYDROLOGY; HYDROMORPHOLOGICAL DEGRADATION; LAND USE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; STREAM (RIVER); WEED CONTROL; ANALYSIS; AQUATIC SPECIES; CHEMISTRY; DENMARK; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RIVER; WATER POLLUTANT;

DENMARK;

WATER POLLUTANT;

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; DENMARK; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUTROPHICATION; PLANTS; RIVERS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84946893762     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.11.027     Document Type: Article

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