Effect of the epizoic rotifer Brachionus rubens on the population growth of three cladoceran species

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 255-256, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 325-332

  Iyer, Nandini ^a   Ramakrishna Rao, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Brachionus rubens; Ceriodaphnia rigaudi; Daphnia carinata; epizoic rotifers; interference competition; Moina macrocopa

Indexed keywords

CLADOCERA; COEXISTENCE; EPIFAUNA; INTERFERENCE COMPETITION; ROTIFER;

BRACHIONUS RUBENS; CERIODAPHNIA RIGAUDI; DAPHNIA CARINATA; MOINA MACROCOPA;

EID: 0027880465     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00025855     Document Type: Article

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