Resource limitation and food quality for cladocerans in a tropical Brazilian lake

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 491, Issue , 2003, Pages 201-210

  Ferrão Filho, Aloysio S ^a   Arcifa, Marlene S ^a   Fileto, Cláudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Food quality; Life table experiments; Phosphorus limitation; Seston; Tropical zooplankton

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BIODIVERSITY; FOOD PRODUCTS;

NATURAL FOOD;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

FOOD QUALITY; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LIFE TABLE; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHOSPHORUS; SESTON; ZOOPLANKTON;

BRAZIL;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CERIODAPHNIA; CHLOROPHYTA; CLADOCERA; CORNUTA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA GESSNERI; DINOPHYCEAE; INVERTEBRATA; MICRURA; MOINA; MOINA MICRURA; SIMOCEPHALUS;

EID: 17944398063     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024496611829     Document Type: Conference Paper

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