Relationships between plankton community structure and plankton size distribution in lakes of northern Germany

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1119-1132

  Tittel, Jörg ^a   Zippel, Barbara ^a   Geller, Walter ^a   Seeger, Juliane ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; LAKE; PLANKTON; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ARENDSEE; GERMANY;

CLADOCERA; DAPHNIA;

EID: 0031763205     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1998.43.6.1119     Document Type: Article

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