Extreme weather events and climate variability provide a lens to how shallow lakes may respond to climate change

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Havens, Karl ^a,b   Paerl, Hans ^c   Phlips, Edward ^b   Zhu, Mengyuan ^d   Beaver, John ^e   Srifa, Akeapot ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^e BSA Environmental Services Inc   (United States)

^f MAHASARAKHAM UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Climate change; Harmful cyanobacteria blooms; Sediment water interactions; Shallow lakes; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; GLOBAL WARMING; HURRICANES; NUTRIENTS; RAIN; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTS; STORMS; TROPICS; WATER QUALITY;

CYANOBACTERIA BLOOMS; EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS; HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA; SHALLOW LAKES; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WATER INTERACTIONS;

LAKES;

ALGAL BLOOM; BIOMONITORING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CYANOBACTERIUM; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL WARMING; IRRADIANCE; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE; SHALLOW WATER; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TOXIC ORGANISM; TOXICITY; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WATER COLUMN; WATER QUALITY; WEATHER;

CHINA; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; LKE LAKE; TAIHU LAKE; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84973102902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w8060229     Document Type: Article

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