Nutrient limitation on a planktonic rotifer: Life history consequences and starvation resistance

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 933-938

  Ramos Rodríguez, Eloísa ^a   Conde Porcuna, José M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH; HERBIVORE; LIFE HISTORY; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; REPRODUCTION;

ALGAE; CRYPTOMONAS; INVERTEBRATA; KERATELLA; KERATELLA COCHLEARIS; ROTIFERA;

EID: 0242669280     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2003.48.2.0933     Document Type: Article

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