Community structure, picoplankton grazing and Zooplankton control of heterotrophic nanoflagellates in a eutrophic reservoir during the summer phytoplankton maximum

Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 49-63

  Šimek, Karel ^a   Hartman, Petr ^a   Nedoma, Jiři ^a   Pernthaler, Jakob ^b   Springmann, Doris ^c   Vrba, Jaroslav ^a   Psenner, Roland ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterial production; Community structure; Food webs; Nanoflagellates; Picoplanktivory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002376575     PISSN: 09483055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/ame012049     Document Type: Article

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