Response of ciliates and Cryptomonas to the spring cohort of a cyclopoid copepod in a shallow hypereutrophic lake

Journal of Plankton Research

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 185-203

  Hansen, Anne Mette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON; GROWTH RATE; LAKE; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATION; TROPHIC FLOW;

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CRUSTACEAN; GRAZING PRESSURE; GROWTH RESPONSE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

DENMARK; LAKE SOBYGARD;

COPEPODA; CRYPTOMONAS; CYCLOPS VICINUS;

EID: 0033978839     PISSN: 01427873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/22.1.185     Document Type: Article

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