Grazer-diatom size relationships in an epiphytic community

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1211-1216

  Tall, Laure ^a   Cloutier, Louise ^a   Cattaneo, Antonella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIATOM; EPIPHYTE; GRAZING; NICHE PARTITIONING; STREAM; ZOOBENTHOS; ZOOPLANKTON;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTA; CRUSTACEA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 33645047153     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.2.1211     Document Type: Article

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