Phytoplankton diversity of shallow tidal lakes: Influence of periodic salinity changes on diversity and species number of a natural assemblage

Journal of Phycology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 54-61

  Flöder, Sabine ^a,b   Burns, Carolyn W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competition; Disturbance; Diversity; Global warming; Phytoplankton; Salinity; Shallow lakes

Indexed keywords

LAKE; PHYTOPLANKTON; SALINE INTRUSION; SALINITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TIDE;

AUSTRALASIA; LAKE WAIHOLA; NEW ZEALAND; OTAGO; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 1342333455     PISSN: 00223646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1529-8817.2004.03050.x     Document Type: Article

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