Phytoplankton biomass and composition in Manton River Reservoir, a mesotrophic impoundment in the Australian wet/dry tropics

International Review of Hydrobiology

Volumn 83, Issue SPEC. ISS., 1998, Pages 113-120

  Townsend, Simon A ^a   Luong Van, Jim T ^b  

^a Department of Lands Planning and Environment ^*  (Australia)

^b CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biomass; Botryocbccus; Ecology; Peridinium; Phytoplankton; Succession; Tropics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000680341     PISSN: 14342944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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