Response of Vallisneria natans to increasing nitrogen loading depends on sediment nutrient characteristics

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2016, Pages

  Gu, Jiao ^a,b   Xu, Zenghong ^c   Jin, Hui ^d   Ning, Xiaoyu ^a,b   He, Hu ^a   Yu, Jinlei ^a   Jeppesen, Erik ^b,e   Li, Kuanyi ^a,b,f  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c SOUTH CHINA SEA FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

^d JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^f SHANGHAI OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Growth Water; Nitrogen loading; Sediments; Vallisneria natans

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; LAKES; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; SEDIMENTS;

ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; NITROGEN LOADING; NUTRIENT ACCUMULATION; RELATIVE GROWTH RATE; SEDIMENT NUTRIENTS; SUBMERGED MACROPHYTES; VALLISNERIA;

LOADING;

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GRASS; GROWTH RATE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MACROPHYTE; MESOCOSM; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; PHYTOTOXICITY; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SUBMERGED VEGETATION;

CHINA; TAIHU LAKE;

VALLISNERIA NATANS;

EID: 85002535499     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w8120563     Document Type: Article

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