Microalgal productivity, community composition, and pelagic food web dynamics in a subtropical, turbid salt marsh isolated from freshwater inflow

Estuaries

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 96-107

  Fejes, Elizabeth ^a   Roelke, Daniel ^a   Gable, George ^a   Heilman, James ^a   McInnes, Kevin ^a   Zuberer, David ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOOD WEB; MICROALGA; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SALTMARSH;

NORTH AMERICA; NUECES ESTUARY; TEXAS; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CRYPTOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; DINOPHYCEAE; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 15744388293     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02732757     Document Type: Article

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