Compositional and interlake variability of zooplankton affect baseline stable isotope signatures

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1977-1987

  Matthews, Blake ^a   Mazumder, Asit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; STABLE ISOTOPE; ZOOPLANKTON;

CALANOIDA; COPEPODA; DAPHNIA; HOLOPEDIUM; PELAGIA;

EID: 0141763490     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2003.48.5.1977     Document Type: Article

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