Phosphorus limitation of Daphnia growth: Is it real?

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1436-1443

  Urabe, Jotaro ^a,b   Clasen, Jessica ^a   Sterner, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHOSPHORUS; ZOOPLANKTON;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; CLADOCERA; CRUSTACEA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; INVERTEBRATA; SCENEDESMUS; SCENEDESMUS ACUTUS;

EID: 0031399798     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1997.42.6.1436     Document Type: Article

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