Colourful coexistence of red and green picocyanobacteria in lakes and seas

Ecology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 290-298

  Stomp, Maayke ^a   Huisman, Jef ^a   Vörös, Lajos ^b   Pick, Frances R ^c   Laamanen, Maria ^d,f   Haverkamp, Thomas ^e   Stal, Lucas J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b BALATON LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d FINNISH INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Finland)

^e NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^f Ministry of the Environment Finland   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Biodiversity; Coexistence; Competition for light; Cyanobacteria; Light spectrum; Phycocyanin; Phycoerythrin; Resource competition; Synechococcus

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; SEA WATER;

BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; COEXISTENCE; COLOR MORPH; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PHYTOPLANKTON; TURBIDITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COLOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ECOSYSTEM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON;

BIODIVERSITY; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; COLOR; CYANOBACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEAWATER;

CYANOBACTERIA; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 33947265948     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01026.x     Document Type: Article

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