Interactive effect of temperature and food concentration on growth rate: A test case using the small freshwater ciliate Urotricha farcta

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1447-1455

  Weisse, Thomas ^a   Stadler, Peter ^a   LindstrÖm, Eva S ^a   Kimmance, Susan A ^b   Montagnes, David J S ^b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CILIATE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GROWTH RATE; PROTOZOAN; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CRYPTOMONAS; UROTRICHA FARCTA;

EID: 0036736303     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2002.47.5.1447     Document Type: Article

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