Competition between Chara aspera and Potamogeton pectinatus as a function of temperature and light

Aquatic Botany

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 241-250

  Van Den Berg, Marcel S ^a   Coops, Hugo ^b   Simons, Jan ^a   De Keizer, Annemarie ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b INST INLAND WATER MGMT WASTE W   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Charophytes; Emergence; Submerged macrophytes; Temperature

Indexed keywords

INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIGHT; TEMPERATURE;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT GROWTH; TEMPERATURE;

CHARA ASPERA; POTAMOGETON PECTINATUS;

EID: 0031949176     PISSN: 03043770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3770(97)00099-5     Document Type: Article

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