Short-term changes of protozoan control on autotrophic picoplankton in an oligo-mesotrophic lake

Journal of Plankton Research

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 443-462

  Pernthaler, Jakob ^a   Šimek, Karel ^b   Sattler, Birgit ^a   Schwarzenbacher, Angela ^a   Bobkova, Jitka ^b   Psenner, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAKE; PICOPLANKTON;

AUSTRIA, TYROL, PIBURGER SEE;

ROTIFERA;

EID: 0029661464     PISSN: 01427873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/18.3.443     Document Type: Article

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