Nutrient recycling by fish versus zooplankton grazing as drivers of the trophic cascade in alpine lakes

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2032-2042

  Sarnelle, Orlando ^a   Knapp, Roland A ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Departments of Cognitive Science and Neurosciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ICHTHYOFAUNA; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NUTRIENT CYCLING; TROPHIC CASCADE; ZOOPLANKTON;

DAPHNIA;

EID: 28044466430     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2005.50.6.2032     Document Type: Article

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