Can mussels control the plankton in rivers? - A planktological approach applying a Lagrangian sampling strategy

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 753-762

  Welker, Martin ^a   Walz, Norbert ^a  

^a Inst F Gewasserokologie B   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FLOW VELOCITY; PLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; RIVER SYSTEM;

GERMANY; SPREE RIVER;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; BIVALVIA; COSCINODISCOPHYCEAE; KERATELLA COCHLEARIS; ROTIFERA; SYNCHAETA OBLONGA; UNIONIDAE;

EID: 0031666874     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1998.43.5.0753     Document Type: Article

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