Epiphyte biomass and elemental composition on submersed macrophytes in shallow eutrophic lakes

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 506-509, Issue , 2003, Pages 559-565

  Gross, Elisabeth M ^a   Feldbaum, Claudia ^c   Graf, Andrea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b PAUL EHRLICH INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Aquatic angiosperm; Autotrophy; carbon:chlorophyll a ratio; Dystrophic lake; Heterotrophy; Nutrient stoichiometry

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; LAKES; PLANTS (BOTANY); STOICHIOMETRY;

BIOTIC FACTORS;

BIOMASS;

ALLELOPATHY; BIOMASS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHLOROPHYLL A; EPIPHYTE; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; NUTRIENT; STOICHIOMETRY; SUBMERGED VEGETATION;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; SWABIAN ALB;

ALGAE; ELODEA; ELODEA NUTTALLII; FRAXINUS; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 0348062792     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:HYDR.0000008538.68268.82     Document Type: Conference Paper

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