Accounting for littoral primary production by periphyton shifts a highly humic boreal lake towards net autotrophy

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 265-276

  Vesterinen, Jussi ^a   Devlin, Shawn P ^a,b   Syväranta, Jari ^a,c   Jones, Roger I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Autotrophy; Benthic primary production; Dissolved organic carbon; Heterotrophy; Lake metabolism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84956592581     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12700     Document Type: Article

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