Low Benthic Oxygen and High Internal Phosphorus-Loading are Strongly Associated With the Invasive Macrophyte Nitellopsis obtusa (starry stonewort) in a Large, Polymictic Lake

Lake Scugog is an important headwater to the Trent Severn-Waterway in Ontario, Canada. In recent years, notable ecosystem-level changes have occurred coinciding with the emergence of the non-native invasive charophyte Nitellopsis obtusa. Despite N. obtusa arriving in North America in the early 1970s...

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Main Authors: Tyler J. Harrow-Lyle, Andrea E. Kirkwood
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Environmental Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2021.735509/full