Variable outcomes of protist-rotifer competition in laboratory microcosms

Oikos

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 489-495

  Fox, Jeremy W ^a,b   Smith, David C ^a  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PARAMECIUM; PHILODINA; PROTISTA; ROTIFERA; PARAMECIUM MULTIMICRONUCLEATUM;

GRAZING; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MICROCOSM;

EID: 0030617596     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546892     Document Type: Article

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