Relationships between environmental variables and the abundance of cladocerans and copepods in the Atchafalaya River Basin

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 379, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 175-181

  Davidson Jr , Norman L ^a,b   Kelso, William E ^a   Allen Rutherford, D ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Louisiana Department of Natural Resources   (United States)

Author keywords

Atchafalaya; Cladocera; Copepoda; Flood pulse; Hypoxia; Seasonal dynamics

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CRUSTACEAN; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; RIVER; ZOOPLANKTON;

UNITED STATES;

BOSMINA LONGIROSTRIS; CERIODAPHNIA QUADRANGULA; CLADOCERA; COPEPODA; DAPHNIA LUMHOLTZI; DAPHNIA PARVULA; DIAPHANOSOMA BIRGEI; EURYTEMORA AFFINIS; MACROCYCLOPS ALBIDUS; MESOCYCLOPS EDAX; MICROCYCLOPS RUBELLUS; MOINA MICRURA; SIMOCEPHALUS SERRULATUS; THERMOCYCLOPS INVERSUS;

EID: 0032408941     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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