Identifying multiple stressor controls on phytoplankton dynamics in the River Thames (UK) using high-frequency water quality data

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 569-570, Issue , 2016, Pages 1489-1499

  Bowes, M J ^a   Loewenthal, M ^b   Read, D S ^a   Hutchins, M G ^a   Prudhomme, C ^a,c   Armstrong, L K ^a   Harman, S A ^a   Wickham, H D ^a   Gozzard, E ^a   Carvalho, L ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Algal bloom; Automated monitoring; Chlorophyll; Eutrophication; Nutrients; Water quality

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; ECOLOGY; EUTROPHICATION; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION STATISTICS; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCES;

ALGAL BLOOMS; AUTOMATED MONITORING; CHLOROPHYLL CONCENTRATION; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS; PHOSPHORUS CONCENTRATION; PHYTOPLANKTON DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS; WATER QUALITY MONITORING;

QUALITY CONTROL;

CHLOROPHYLL; PHOSPHORUS; SILICON;

ALGAL BLOOM; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; EUTROPHICATION; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUNLIGHT; WATER FLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER TEMPERATURE; CHEMISTRY; ENGLAND; EUTROPHICATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; RIVER; SEASON; TEMPERATURE;

ENGLAND; THAMES RIVER [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

ALGAE;

CHLOROPHYLL; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUTROPHICATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; RIVERS; SEASONS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84989912848     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.06.239     Document Type: Article

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