Short-term variations in the abundance and cell volume of bacterioplankton in an artificial tropical lake

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 385, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 113-119

  Jugnia, Louis B ^a   Tadonléké, Rémy D ^a   Sime Ngando, Télesphore ^a   Foto, Samuel M ^b   Kemka, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Algae; Artificial lakes; Bacteria; Circadian variations; Plankton; Tropical lakes

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPLANKTON; BIOMASS; LAKE; PRODUCTIVITY;

CAMEROON;

EID: 0032413312     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1003453709384     Document Type: Article

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