Use of riverine organic matter in plankton food webs of the Baltic Sea

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 197, Issue , 2000, Pages 81-101

  Rolff, Carl ^a   Elmgren, Ragnar ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Allochthonous; Baltic; Dissolved matter; Food chain length; Food web complexity; Plankton; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; FOOD WEB; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MODEL; NITROGEN; NITROGEN 15; ORGANIC MATTER; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTON; RIVER; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; SWEDEN; ZOOPLANKTON;

FOOD WEB; NUTRIENT USE; ORGANIC MATTER; PLANKTON; RIVER DISCHARGE;

BALTIC SEA; BOTHNIAN SEA;

EID: 0034640488     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps197081     Document Type: Article

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