The mixotroph Ochromonas tuberculata may invade and suppress specialist phago- and phototroph plankton communities depending on nutrient conditions

Oecologia

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 692-701

  Katechakis, Alexis ^a   Stibor, Herwig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Enrichment; Intraguild predation; Mechanistic resource competition theory; Nutrient stoichiometry; Transfer efficiency

Indexed keywords

ALGA; MIXOTROPHY; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PHAGOTROPHY; PHOTOAUTOTROPHY; PHYTOPLANKTON; TROPHIC STATUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; OCHROMONAS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANKTON; TIME;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; OCHROMONAS; PLANKTON; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OCHROMONAS; OCHROMONAS TUBERCULATA; PHAGO;

EID: 33745341172     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0413-4     Document Type: Article

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