Relative importance of CO2 recycling and CH4 pathways in lake food webs along a dissolved organic carbon gradient

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1602-1613

  Lennon, Jay T ^a,b   Faiia, Anthony M ^a   Feng, Xiahong ^a   Cottingham, Kathryn L ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRUSTACEAN; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; FOOD WEB; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; METHANE; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; PHYTOPLANKTON;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRUSTACEA;

EID: 33746956954     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.4.1602     Document Type: Article

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