Strategies for the co-existence of zooplankton with the toxic cyanobacterium Planktothrix rubescens in Lake Zurich

Journal of Plankton Research

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 659-683

  Kurmayer, Rainer ^a,b   Jüttner, Friedrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARINE ENVIRONMENT; SURVIVAL; TOXICITY;

CHEMICAL DEFENSE; COEXISTENCE; CYANOBACTERIUM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING DETERRENT; TOXIC ORGANISM; ZOOPLANKTON;

LAKE ZURICH; SWITZERLAND;

ANOSTRACA; CLADOCERA; COPEPODA; CYCLOPS; DAPHNIA; PLANKTOTHRIX RUBESCENS; THAMNOCEPHALUS PLATYURUS;

EID: 0345643460     PISSN: 01427873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/21.4.659     Document Type: Article

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