Impact of planktonic food web structure on nutrient retention and loss from a late summer pelagic system in the coastal northern Baltic sea

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 145, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 195-208

  Heiskanen, Anna Stiina ^a,b   Tamminen, Timo ^a,b   Gundersen, Kjell ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Bermuda)

Author keywords

'Top down' and 'bottom up' manipulations; Baltic Sea; Carbon; Eutrophication; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Planktonic food web; Sedimentation

Indexed keywords

EUTROPHICATION; FOOD WEB; FOOD WEBS; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEMS; PLANKTON;

BALTIC SEA;

EID: 0030302718     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps145195     Document Type: Article

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