Record Details
Field | Value |
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Title | Nitrogen and phosphorus loading from drained wetlands adjacent to Upper Klamath and Agency Lakes, Oregon |
Creator | Morace, Jennifer L.; Snyder, Daniel T. |
Subject | Water quality; Water -- Phosphorus content; Nutrient pollution of water; Organic compounds; |
Coverage | Portland (Or.); Oregon |
Description | ABSTRACT Upper Klamath Lake and the connecting Agency Lake constitute a large, shallow lake in south-central Oregon that the historical record indicates has likely been eutrophic since its discovery by non-Native Americans. In recent decades, however, the lake has had annual occurrences of near-monoculture blooms of the bluegreen alga Aphanizomenon flos-aquae that are thought to be a result of accelerated eutrophication. In 1988, two sucker species endemic to the lake, the Lost River sucker... |
Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey |
Contributor | Bureau Of Reclamation |
Date | 1997 |
Type | text; |
Format | application/pdf; |
Source | Morace, Jennifer L. and Snyder, Daniel T., Nitrogen and phosphorus loading from drained wetlands adjacent to Upper Klamath and Agency Lakes, Oregon, Portland, Oregon: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 97–4059, p73 |
Language | eng; |
Rights | Public Domain, Courtesy of the USGS |
Identifier | http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/ref/collection/wwdl-er/id/110 |