Plankton food web responses to experimental nutrient additions in a subtropical lake

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Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages 827-833

  Havens, Karl E ^a   East, Therese L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Food webs; Nutrients; Plankton; Subtropical lake

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOMASS; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS; FOOD WEB; HYPOTHESIS; LAKE; LYNGBYA; NUTRIENT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PLANKTON;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; CARBON; CLIMATE; FLORIDA; FOOD CHAIN; FRESH WATER; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTON; ZOOPLANKTON;

CYANOBACTERIA; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS RACIBORSKII; LYNGBYA;

EID: 33746151637     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1100/tsw.2006.176     Document Type: Article

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