Biomass, composition and size structure of invertebrate communities associated to different types of aquatic vegetation during summer in Lago di Candia (Italy)

Journal of Limnology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 190-198

  Tessier, Celine ^a   Cattaneo, Antonia ^a   Pinel Alloul, Bernadette ^a   Galanti, Gaetano ^b   Morabito, Giuseppe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Epiphyton; Myriophyllum spicatum; Phytophilous invertebrates; Schoenoplectus lacustris; Trapa natans

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC PLANT; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EPIPHYTE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; WATER COLUMN;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LAKE CANDIA; PIEDMONT [ITALY]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TORINO; WORLD;

ANNELIDA; COPEPODA; EPIPHYTON; GASTROPODA; HIRUDINEA; INVERTEBRATA; MYOCASTOR COYPUS; MYRIOPHYLLUM SPICATUM; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA); OSTRACODA; RODENTIA; SCHOENOPLECTUS LACUSTRIS; TRAPA NATANS;

EID: 13644250926     PISSN: 11295767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/jlimnol.2004.190     Document Type: Article

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