The long-term patterns of phytoplankton taxonomic size-structure and their sensitivity to perturbation: A Lake Kinneret case study

Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 490-501

  Kamenir, Yury ^a   Dubinsky, Zvy ^a   Zohary, Tamar ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

Community structure; Perturbation; Phytoplankton; Size frequency distribution; Stability

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; PERTURBATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SIZE STRUCTURE; TAXONOMY;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NORTHERN DISTRICT; SEA OF GALILEE;

EID: 33846829899     PISSN: 10151621     EISSN: 14209055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00027-006-0864-z     Document Type: Article

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