Terrestrial carbon and intraspecific size-variation shape lake ecosystems

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 316-322

  Jansson, Mats ^a   Persson, Lennart ^a   De Roos, André M ^b   Jones, Roger I ^c   Tranvik, Lars J ^d  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^d Limnology ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FRESH WATER;

ALLOCHTHON; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; ENERGY FLOW; FOOD WEB; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; ORGANIC CARBON; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SIZE STRUCTURE; TERRESTRIAL DEPOSIT; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY TRANSFER; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CARBON; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY TRANSFER; FRESH WATER;

EID: 34248357415     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2007.02.015     Document Type: Review

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