Mechanisms underlying the decline and recovery of a characean community in fluctuating light in a large oligotrophic lake

Australian Journal of Botany

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 325-336

  Schwarz, Anne Maree ^a   Hawes, Ian ^a   Howard Williams, Clive ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGA GROWTH; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; BREATHING; LIGHT HARVESTING COMPLEX; NEW ZEALAND; REGENERATION;

ALGA; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; LAKE ECOSYSTEM;

LAKE COLERIDGE; NEW ZEALAND;

CHARA CORALLINA;

EID: 0032857551     PISSN: 00671924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/bt97103     Document Type: Article

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