A model approach to planktonic stoichiometry and consumer-resource stability

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 447-471

  Hessen, Dag O ^a   Bjerkeng, Birger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON; GROWTH RATE; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; STOICHIMETRY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ALGAE; CLADOCERA; DAPHNIA;

EID: 0031424774     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1997.00224.x     Document Type: Article

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