Grazer-induced colony formation in Scenedesmus: Are there costs to being colonial?

Oikos

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 111-118

  Lürling, Miquel ^a   Van Donk, Ellen ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; COST; GRAZING; GREEN ALGA; GROWTH RATE;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; SCENEDESMUS; SCENEDESMUS ACUTUS;

EID: 0343550382     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2000.880113.x     Document Type: Article

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