Production biology of copepods and cladocerans in three south-east Sri Lankan low-land reservoirs and its comparison to other tropical freshwater bodies

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 350, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 145-162

  Amarasinghe, P Bandu ^a   Vijverberg, Jacobus ^b   Boersma, Maarten ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RUHUNA   (Sri Lanka)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomass; Empirical relationships; Microcrustacean zooplankton; Production; Tropical limnology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030771601     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1003035831790     Document Type: Review

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