Pelagic-benthic coupling: Profundal benthic community response to spring diatom deposition in mesotrophic Lake Erken

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 636-647

  Goedkoop, Willem ^a   Johnson, Richard K ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHIRONOMIDAE; CHYDORIDAE; COPEPODA; NEMATODA; OSTRACODA;

EID: 0029810438     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1996.41.4.0636     Document Type: Article

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