Competition for light between phytoplankton species: Experimental tests of mechanistic theory

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 211-222

  Huisman, Jef ^a,b   Jonker, Richard R ^c   Zonneveld, Cor ^d   Weissing, Franz J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c AquaSense Ltd   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chemostat; Competition model; Critical light intensity; Cyanobacteria; Green algae; Light limitation; Photosynthesis; Phytoplankton; Population dynamics; Resource competition

Indexed keywords

INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIGHT INTENSITY; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ALGAE; APHANIZOMENON; APHANIZOMENON FLOS AQUAE; APHANIZOMENON FLOS-AQUAE; CHLORELLA VULGARIS; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; FLOS; MICROCYSTIS; SCENEDESMUS; SCENEDESMUS PROTUBERANS;

EID: 0032927626     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[0211:CFLBPS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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