Responses of phytoplankton to varied resource availability in large lakes of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 3 I, 1999, Pages 668-682

  Interlandi, Sebastian J ^a   Kilham, Susan S ^a   Theriot, Edward C ^b  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEASONALITY;

GREATER YELLOWSTONE; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

ALGAE; ASTERIONELLA FORMOSA; AULACOSEIRA SUBARCTICA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CYCLOTELLA BODANICA; EUKARYOTA; FRAGILARIA CROTONENSIS; STEPHANODISCUS MINUTULUS; STEPHANODISCUS NIAGARAE; SYNEDRA;

EID: 0032927403     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1999.44.3.0668     Document Type: Article

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