Habitat specialization and the exploitation of allochthonous carbon by zooplankton

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2800-2812

  Matthews, Blake ^a   Mazumder, Asit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allochthonous; Allochthony; Daphnia; Food web; Habitat specialization; Lake; Organic carbon; Spatial subsidy; Stable isotope; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYLL A; FRESH WATER;

CARBON ISOTOPE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPILIMNION; EXPLOITATION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD WEB; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HYPOLIMNION; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LIFE HISTORY; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; PREDATOR; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPECIALIZATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ALGA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CANADA; CHEMISTRY; DAPHNIA; ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASON; TIME; ZOOPLANKTON;

ALGAE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHLOROPHYLL; DAPHNIA; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS; ZOOPLANKTON;

DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA PULEX;

EID: 33845396663     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[2800:HSATEO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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