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  • Presence and patterns of alkaline phosphatase activity and phosphorus cycling in natural riparian zones under changing nutrient conditions

    Peifang Wang, Lingxiao Ren, Chao Wang, Jin Qian, Jun Hou
    22-08-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.1004
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  • Sediment phosphorus release sustains nuisance periphyton growth when nitrogen is not limiting Sediment phosphorus sustains nuisance periphyton

    Bradley J. Austin, Violet Eagle, Michelle A. Evans-White, J. Thad Scott, Brian E. Haggard
    03-04-2020
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2020.1913
    2818
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  • The algal growth-limiting nutrient of lakes located at Mexico’s Mesa Central

    Fernando W. Bernal-Brooks, José J. Sánchez Chávez, Luis Bravo Inclán, Rubén Hernández Morales, Ana K. Martínez Cano, Owen T. Lind, Laura Dávalos-Lind
    22-03-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1439
    3254
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  • Nitrate limitation and accumulation of dissolved organic carbon during a spring-summer cyanobacterial bloom in Lake Taihu (China)

    Linlin Ye, Xiaoli Shi, Xiaodong Wu, Fanxiang Kong
    e6
    19-01-2012
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2012.e6
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  • High chlorophyll a concentration in a low nutrient context: discussions in a subtropical lake dominated by Cyanobacteria

    Mariana C. Hennemann, Mauricio M. Petrucio
    03-05-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1347
    3978
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  • Phytoplankton functional group dynamics and environmental drivers in a tropical monomictic lake (Lake Yambo, Philippines)

    Dimple May Gianne Q. Dumaguit, Maxine A.D. Mowe, Rey Donne S. Papa
    17-06-2025
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2025.2231
    1624
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  • Photosynthetic response to nitrogen source and different ratios of nitrogen and phosphorus in toxic cyanobacteria, Microcystis aeruginosa FACHB-905

    Guotao Peng, Zhengqiu Fan, Xiangrong Wang, Chen Chen
    07-06-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1458
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  • By Nicholas A. Tonelli from Pennsylvania, USA - Lacawac Sanctuary (1), CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21215360

    Seasonal variation in the relative strength of bottom-up vs top-down effects in pelagic cladoceran populations identified through contribution analysis of birth rate

    Anna A. Kasparson, Leonard V. Polishchuk
    07-09-2023
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2023.2142
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  • Assessing temporal and spatial variability of phytoplankton composition in a large reservoir in the Brazilian northeastern region under intense drought conditions

    Hortência de Souza Barroso, Janaina A. Santos, Rozane V. Marins, Luiz Drude Lacerda
    02-11-2017
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2017.1698
    3968
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  • Strict stoichiometric homeostasis of Cryptomonas pyrenoidifera (Cryptophyceae) in relation to N:P supply ratios

    Eloísa Ramos Rodríguez, Carmen Pérez-Martínez, José María Conde-Porcuna
    15-11-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1487
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  • Fifty years of eutrophication and lake restoration reflected in sedimentary carbon and nitrogen isotopes of a small, hardwater lake (south Germany)

    Emanuel Braig, Christoph Mayr, Gerald Kirchner, Andrea Hofmann, Uta Raeder, Arnulf Melzer
    e21
    23-04-2013
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2013.e21
    4409
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  • Paleolimnological assessment of nutrient enrichment on diatom assemblages in a priori defined nitrogen- and phosphorus-limited lakes downwind of the Athabasca Oil Sands, Canada

    Kathleen R. Laird, Biplob Das, Brittany Hesjedal, Peter R. Leavitt, Graham R. Mushet, Kenneth A. Scott, Gavin L. Simpson, Bjorn Wissel, Jared Wolfe, Brian F. Cumming
    14-04-2017
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2017.1598
    4366
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  • Temporal changes in nutrients in a deep oligomictic lake: the role of external loads versus climate change

    Michela Rogora, Martina Austoni, Rossana Caroni, Paola Giacomotti, Lyudmila Kamburska, Aldo Marchetto, Rosario Mosello, Arianna Orru', Gabriele Tartari, Claudia Dresti
    25-11-2021
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2021.2051
    2580
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  • Tropical cyanobacterial blooms: a review of prevalence, problem taxa, toxins and influencing environmental factors

    Maxine A.D. Mowe, Simon M. Mitrovic, Richard P. Lim, Ambrose Furey, Darren C.J. Yeo
    30-12-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.1005
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  • Response of sedimentary processes to cyanobacteria loading

    Mindaugas Zilius, Rutger de Wit, Marco Bartoli
    29-12-2015
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2015.1296
    4069
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  • From intermittent to persistent cyanobacterial blooms: identifying the main drivers in an urban tropical reservoir

    Cleber C. Figueredo, Ricardo M. Pinto-Coelho, Ana Maria M.B. Lopes, Pedro H.O. Lima, Björn Gücker, Alessandra Giani
    15-04-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1330
    4615
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  • Influence of underwater light climate on periphyton and phytoplankton communities in shallow lakes from the Pampa plain (Argentina) with contrasting steady states

    María Laura Sánchez, Gonzalo Luis Pérez, Irina Izaguirre, Haydée Pizarro
    e6
    05-02-2013
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2013.e6
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  • Anuran larvae diet from agroecosystem’s ponds: environmental quality and implications for their populations

    Selene Babini, Luciana Cibils Martina, Elisa Luque, Noemi Gari, Nancy Salas, Adolfo L. Martino
    02-11-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1455
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  • Model simulations of the ecological dynamics induced by climate and nutrient load changes for deep subalpine Lake Maggiore (Italy/Switzerland) Model simulations of the future ecological dynamics of Lake Maggiore

    Andrea Fenocchi, Michela Rogora, Aldo Marchetto, Stefano Sibilla, Claudia Dresti
    12-06-2020
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2020.1963
    2758
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  • Sediment-water oxygen, ammonium and soluble reactive phosphorus fluxes in a turbid freshwater estuary (Curonian lagoon, Lithuania): evidences of benthic microalgal activity

    Mindaugas Zilius, Darius Daunys, Jolita Petkuviene, Marco Bartoli
    e33
    24-07-2012
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2012.e33
    4066
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  • Biogeochemical drivers of methane dynamics in the water column of Georgian Bay’s embayment, Lake Huron

    Khoren Avetisyan, Xiaoqing Shao, David Sweetnam, Maria Dittrich
    17-09-2025
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2025.2215
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  • The trophic role and impact of plankton ciliates in the microbial web structure of a tropical polymictic lake dominated by filamentous cyanobacteria

    Alfonso Esquivel, Aude Barani, Miroslav Macek, Ruth Ruth Soto-Castor, Celia Bulit
    22-03-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1392
    3732
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  • Seasonal variability of water quality and metazooplankton community structure in Xiaowan Reservoir of the upper Mekong River

    Xiaodong Wu, Daming He, Guijun Yang, Linlin Ye, Chunling Zhu, Haifeng Jia, Jinming Hu
    20-02-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.801
    3751
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  • Spatial and temporal dynamics of phytoplankton communities in a Great Lakes drowned river-mouth lake (Mona Lake, USA)

    Nadezhda D. Gillett, Mark R. Luttenton, Alan D. Steinman
    17-02-2015
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2015.1055
    3216
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  • Why bacteria are smaller in the epilimnion than in the hypolimnion? A hypothesis comparing temperate and tropical lakes

    J. Salvador Hernandez-Aviles, Roberto Bertoni, Miroslav Macek, Cristiana Callieri
    e10
    19-01-2012
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2012.e10
    2625
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  • Ecological dynamics of two remote alpine lakes during ice-free season

    Rocco Tiberti, Sabino Metta, Martina Austoni, Cristiana Callieri, Morabito Giuseppe, Marchetto Aldo, Michela Rogora, Gabriele A. Tartari, Jost Von Hardenberg, Antonello Provenzale
    e33
    29-05-2013
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2013.e33
    5738
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  • Perspectives for an integrated understanding of tropical and temperate high-mountain lakes

    Jordi Catalan, John C. Donato Rondón
    22-03-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1372
    5730
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  • Variation of stream metabolism along a tropical environmental gradient Stream metabolism variation

    Wesley A. Saltarelli, Walter K. Dodds, Flavia Tromboni, Maria do Carmo Calijuri, Vinicius Neres-Lima, Carlos E. Jordão, Julio C.P. Palhares, Davi G.F. Cunha
    22-05-2018
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2018.1717
    2899
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  • Transparent exopolymer particles (TEP), phytoplankton and picocyanobacteria along a littoral-to-pelagic depth-gradient in a large subalpine lake

    Cristiana Callieri, J. Salvador Hernández-Avilés, Ester M. Eckert, Michela Rogora, Gabriele Tartari, Tommaso Sforzi, Raffaella Sabatino, Roberto Bertoni
    13-07-2021
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2021.2021
    1892
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  • Seasonal morphological variability in an in situ Cyanobacteria monoculture: example from a persistent Cylindrospermopsis bloom in Lake Catemaco, Veracruz, Mexico

    Owen Lind, Laura Dávalos-Lind, Carlos López, Martin López, Juli Dyble Bressie
    22-03-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1190
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  • Incidence of phytoplankton and environmental conditions on the bacterial ammonium uptake in a subtropical coastal lagoon

    Germán Pérez, Laura Farías, Camila Fernandez, Daniel Conde, Claudia Piccini
    13-03-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.829
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  • Phosphorus dynamics in a subtropical coastal lake in Southern Brazil Phosphorus dynamics in coastal lake

    Aurea L. Lemes da Silva, Mariana C. Hennemann, Mauricio M. Petrucio
    11-11-2019
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2019.1894
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  • The occurrence and levels of cyanotoxin nodularin from Nodularia spumigena in the alkaline and salty Lake Burdur, Turkey

    Fatma Sahindokuyucu Kocasari, Iskender Gulle, Sukru Kocasari, Selcuk Pekkaya, Firdevs Mor
    02-04-2015
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2015.1097
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  • Seasonal variation of Microcystis aeruginosa and factors related to blooms in a deep warm monomictic lake in Mexico

    Eloy Montero, Gabriela Vázquez, Margarita Caballero, Mario E. Favila, Fernando Martínez-Jerónimo
    21-06-2021
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2021.2013
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  • Grazing affects periphytic algal biomass in the periphyton-macrophyte relationship independently of the substrate type and nutrient status Algae-substrate relationship

    Monika Tarkowska-Kukuryk, Wojciech Pęczuła, Tomasz Mieczan
    22-01-2020
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2020.1941
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  • Microcystin assimilation and detoxification by Daphnia spp. in two ecosystems of different cyanotoxin concentrations

    Adrianna Wojtal-Frankiewicz, Joanna Bernasińska, Tomasz Jurczak, Krzysztof Gwoździński, Piotr Frankiewicz, Marzena Wielanek
    e13
    06-02-2013
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2013.e13
    3855
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  • Responses of phytoplankton functional groups to environmental factors in the Maixi River, southwest China

    Guojia Huang, Qiuhua Li, Xiaoqing Wang, Mengshu Han, Lei Li, Jing Xiao, Yipeng Liu
    25-08-2017
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2017.1613
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  • Influence of environmental conditions on the regenerative capacity and the survivability of Elodea nuttallii fragments

    Markus A. Hoffmann, Uta Raeder, Arnulf Melzer
    18-06-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.952
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  • Phytoplankton functional groups for ecological assessment in young sub-tropical reservoirs: case study of the Nam-Theun 2 Reservoir, Laos, South-East Asia

    Joanna Martinet, Stéphane Descloux, Pierre Guédant, Frederic Rimet
    15-05-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.958
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  • Predicting aquatic macrophyte occurrence in soft-water oligotrophic lakes (Pyrenees mountain range)

    Cristina Pulido, Joan Lluís Riera, Enric Ballesteros, Eglantine Chappuis, Esperança Gacia
    22-08-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.965
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  • Relationships among cyanobacteria, zooplankton and fish in sub-bloom conditions in the Sulejow Reservoir

    Zbigniew Kaczkowski, Adrianna Wojtal-Frankiewicz, Ilona Gągała, Joanna Mankiewicz-Boczek, Aleksandra Jaskulska, Piotr Frankiewicz, Katarzyna Izydorczyk, Tomasz Jurczak, Małgorzata Godlewska
    26-01-2017
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2017.1521
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  • When and how? Freshwater mussel recolonization in Lake Orta

    Nicoletta Riccardi, Elsa Froufe, Manuel Lopes-Lima, Claudio Mazzoli
    13-04-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1286
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  • Mountain lakes of Mont Avic Natural Park: ecological features and conservation issues Mountain lakes of a natural park

    Rocco Tiberti, Francesco Buscaglia, Marco Armodi, Cristiana Callieri, Fabio Ribelli, Michela Rogora, Gabriele Tartari, Massimo Bocca
    08-11-2019
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2019.1923
    2421
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  • Phosphorus body content in an herbivorous fish in environments with different trophic state

    Talita M. de Andrade Santos, Bianca de Freitas Terra, Eugênia Zandonà, Sandra T. Santaella, Carla F. Rezende
    13-04-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1202
    3215
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  • Daily and seasonal variability of CO2 saturation and evasion in a free flowing and in a dammed river reach

    Monica Pinardi, Marisa Rossetto, Pierluigi Viaroli, Marco Bartoli
    08-05-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.947
    3730
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  • Phytoplankton-zooplankton coupling in a cascade of hypertrophic fishponds

    Marija Radojičić, Michal Šorf, Barbora Müllerová, Radovan Kopp
    21-09-2023
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2023.2145
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  • Recent findings regarding non-native or poorly known diatom taxa in north-western Italian rivers

    Elisa Falasco, Francesca Bona
    e4
    05-02-2013
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2013.e4
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  • By Cgoodwin - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4782013

    Hitting the sweet spot of complexity: Reasons why the development of new custom-tailored models is still warranted and should be encouraged in aquatic sciences

    Gregorio A. López Moreira M., Marco Toffolon, Franz Hölker
    27-09-2021
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2021.2035
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  • Zooplankton biodiversity and community structure vary along spatiotemporal environmental gradients in restored peridunal ponds

    Maria Anton-Pardo, Xavier Armengol, Raquel Ortells
    13-11-2015
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2015.1305
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  • The importance of environmental differences in the structuring of rotifer functional diversity Environmental differences and rotifer functional diversity

    Anita Galir Balkić
    26-06-2019
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2019.1903
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  • Trends of publications related to climate change and lake research from 1991 to 2015

    Jianming Deng, Yunlin Zhang, Boqiang Qin, Xiaolong Yao, Yubing Deng
    14-03-2017
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2017.1612
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  • Trait-based evaluation of plant assemblages in traditional farm ponds in Korea: Ecological and management implications Plant trait-based evaluation of farm ponds

    Sungsoo Yoon, GoWoon Kim, Ho Choi, Chaeho Byun, Dowon Lee
    03-01-2019
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2019.1861
    2297
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  • Modelling physical and ecological processes in medium-to-large deep European perialpine lakes: a review

    Claudia Dresti, Andrea Fenocchi, Diego Copetti
    13-10-2021
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2021.2041
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  • Rotifers in Lake Orta: a potential ecological and evolutionary model system

    Stefan Sommer, Sarma Nandini, S.S.S. Sarma, Arpat Ozgul, Diego Fontaneto
    13-04-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1276
    4075
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  • Diversity and dynamics of picocyanobacteria and the bloom-forming cyanobacteria in a large shallow eutrophic lake (lake Chaohu, China)

    Yuanfeng Cai, Fanxiang Kong
    e38
    07-10-2013
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2013.e38
    5142
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  • Effect of a dam on epilithic algal communities of a mountain stream: before-after dam construction comparison

    Luciana Cibils Martina, Romina Principe, Noemí Gari
    e7
    05-02-2013
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2013.e7
    4558
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  • Differences between groundwater fauna in shallow and in deep intergranular aquifers as an indication of different characteristics of habitats and hydraulic connections

    Anton Brancelj, Uroš Žibrat, Brigita Jamnik
    15-03-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1294
    3415
    Downloads: 1027
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  • Biodiversity loss in a small riverine wetland of the Ticino river (Lombardia, Northern Italy)

    Daniele Paganelli, Renato Sconfietti
    e48
    18-10-2013
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2013.e48
    4276
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  • The effect of ice phenology exerted on submerged macrophytes through physicochemical parameters and the phytoplankton abundance

    Wojciech Ejankowski, Tomasz Lenard
    25-09-2015
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2015.1207
    3011
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  • Physical and chemical characteristics of 1300 lakes and ponds across the Canadian Arctic Characteristics of Canadian Arctic lakes and ponds

    Tanner Liang, Julian Aherne
    02-09-2020
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2020.1973
    2367
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  • Compensatory growth in Microcystis aeruginosa after moderate high-temperature exposure

    Wei Han, Yuanshu Jing, Ting Li
    22-04-2015
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2015.1164
    2957
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