Continental-Scale Increase in Lake and Stream Phosphorus: Are Oligotrophic Systems Disappearing in the United States?

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 3409-3415

  Stoddard, John L ^a   Van Sickle, John ^a   Herlihy, Alan T ^b   Brahney, Janice ^c   Paulsen, Steven ^a   Peck, David V ^a   Mitchell, Richard ^a   Pollard, Amina I ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; PHOSPHORUS; RUNOFF;

CONTINENTAL SCALE; NON-POINT SOURCE; TOTAL PHOSPHORUS; WATERBODIES;

LAKES;

PHOSPHORUS;

CATCHMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); LAKE; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PHOSPHORUS; PROBABILITY; STREAM;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; BIOMASS; CATCHMENT; LAKE; PROBABILITY; STREAM (RIVER); UNITED STATES; WATERSHED; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PROCEDURES; RIVER;

UNITED STATES;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LAKES; PHOSPHORUS; RIVERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84964199568     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b05950     Document Type: Article

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