Periphyton production on wood and sediment: Substratum-specific response to laboratory and whole-lake nutrient manipulations

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 68-81

  Vadeboncoeur, Yvonne ^a,b   Lodge, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Epixylon; Lakes; Light; Nutrients; Periphyton; Pipelon; Primary production; Substratum

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; LAKE; LIGHT INTENSITY; NUTRIENT MANIPULATION; PERIPHYTON; SEDIMENT; WATER ANALYSIS; WOOD;

PERIPHYTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEDIMENT; WOOD;

EID: 0034161768     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1468282     Document Type: Article

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