Nematodes of Lake Constance, Germany, with special reference to littoral communities of a river mouth area

Nematology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 539-553

  Witthöft Mühlmann, André ^a,c   Traunspurger, Walter ^b   Rothhaupt, Karl Otto ^c  

^a Institute for Lake Research   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abundance; Daptonema dubium; Disturbance; Feeding types; Freshwater; Spatial pattern; Temporal pattern; Trophic relation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FEEDING ECOLOGY; INFLOW; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; NEMATODE; RIVER; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; LAKE CONSTANCE;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DAPTONEMA; NEMATODA;

EID: 33750175207     PISSN: 13885545     EISSN: 13885545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156854106778614029     Document Type: Article

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