The structuring role of free-floating versus submerged plants in a subtropical shallow lake

Aquatic Ecology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 377-391

  Meerhoff, Mariana ^a   Mazzeo, Néstor ^a   Moss, Brian ^b   Rodríguez Gallego, Lorena ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alternative states; Bottom up; Refuge effect; Spatial distribution; Top down

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

SOUTH AMERICA; URUGUAY;

EICHHORNIA; EICHHORNIA CRASSIPES; PECTINATUS; POTAMOGETON; STUCKENIA PECTINATUS;

EID: 1642525669     PISSN: 13862588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:AECO.0000007041.57843.0b     Document Type: Article

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