Unsaturated fatty acid content in seston and tropho-dynamic coupling in lakes

Nature

Volumn 427, Issue 6969, 2004, Pages 69-72

  Müller Navarra, Dörthe C ^a,d   Brett, Michael T ^b   Park, Sangkyu ^a   Chandra, Sudeep ^a   Ballantyne, Ashley P ^b   Zorita, Eduardo ^c   Goldman, Charles R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ECOLOGY; ENERGY TRANSFER; FATTY ACIDS; PHOSPHORUS; SURFACE WATERS;

TROPHIC LEVELS;

LAKES;

CARBON; CHLOROPHYLL A; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; ICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; LINOLENIC ACID; OCTADECATETRAENOIC ACID; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; PHOSPHORUS; SESTON; SURFACE WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

FATTY ACID; FOOD WEB; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PHYTOPLANKTON;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; DAPHNIA; ECOLOGY; EGG PRODUCTION; ENERGY TRANSFER; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD WEB; LAKE; NUTRIENT; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANT ANIMAL INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUMMER; TROPHIC LEVEL; WATER QUALITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALIA; DAPHNIA;

EID: 0347719239     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02210     Document Type: Article

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