Epiphytes from a deep-water characean meadow in an oligotrophic New Zealand lake: Species composition, biomass and photosynthesis

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 297-313

  Hawes, Ian ^a   Schwarz, Anne Maree ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIATOM; EPIPHYTE;

NEW ZEALAND, SOUTH ISLAND, LAKE COLERIDGE;

ACHNANTHES MINUTISSIMA; CHARACEAE; EUNOTIA PECTINALIS;

EID: 0030304869     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1996.t01-1-00089.x     Document Type: Article

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