Intra-habitat heterogeneity of microbial food web structure under the regime of eutrophication and sediment resuspension in the large subtropical shallow Lake Taihu, China

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 581, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 241-254

  Wu, Qinglong L ^a,b,e   Chen, Yuwei ^a   Xu, Kuidong ^c   Liu, Zhengwen ^a,d   Hahn, Martin W ^b  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Eutrophication; Heterogeneity; Microbial food web; Resuspension; Shallow lake

Indexed keywords

CHINA; EUTROPHICATION; LAKES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEDIMENTS; TROPICS;

HETEROGENEITY; MICROBIAL FOOD WEBS; RESUSPENSIONS; SHALLOW LAKES;

MICROORGANISMS;

BACTERIUM; CARBON FLUX; EUTROPHICATION; FOOD WEB; HETEROGENEITY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; RESUSPENSION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIHU LAKE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MICROCYSTIS;

EID: 33947245573     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-006-0500-x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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