Seasonal heterotrophic flagellate and bacterial plankton dynamics in alarge oligotrophic lake - Loch Ness, Scotland

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-8

  Laybourn Parry, Johanna ^a   Walton, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; FLAGELLATE; OLIGOTROPHIC LAKE; PLANKTON; PRODUCTIVITY;

UK, SCOTLAND, HIGHLAND, LOCH NESS;

EID: 0031933113     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1998.00253.x     Document Type: Article

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