Microbial food webs in an artificially divided acidic bog lake

International Review of Hydrobiology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 3-18

  Šimek, Karel ^a,b   Babenzien, Dieter ^c   Bittl, Thomas ^c   Koschel, Rainer ^c   Macek, Miroslav ^a   Nedoma, Jiří ^a   Vrba, Jaroslav ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterivory; Cyclidium; Humic lake; Microbial food webs; Protozoans; Top down control; Trophic strukture

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BOG; FOOD WEB; LAKE; MICROOGRANISM; PRODUCTION;

BRANDENBURG; GERMANY; LAKE GROSSE FUCHSKUHLE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CERIODAPHNIA QUADRANGULA; CILIOPHORA; CLADOCERA; CYCLIDIUM; DIAPHANOSOMA BRACHYURUM; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0031917034     PISSN: 14342944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iroh.19980830103     Document Type: Article

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