The planktonic food web structure of a temperate zone estuary, and its alteration due to eutrophication

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 475-476, Issue , 2002, Pages 263-333

  Capriulo, G M ^a   Smith, G ^b   Troy, R ^c   Wikfors, G H ^d   Pellet, J ^e   Yarish, C ^b  

^a SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^e Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Ciliates; Estuary; Eutrophication; Food web; Larval fish; Microbes; Nutrients; Phytoplankton; Protists; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; EUTROPHICATION; SEDIMENTS; TOXICITY;

NUTRIENTS;

ESTUARIES;

ALGAL BLOOM; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; EUTROPHICATION; FOOD WEB; HYPOXIA; ICHTHYOPLANKTON;

UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; COPEPODA; PROTISTA;

EID: 0037095967     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020387325081     Document Type: Article

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