Relationships among nitrogen and total phosphorus, algal biomass and zooplankton density in the central Amazonia lakes

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 586, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 357-365

  Trevisan, Giselle V ^a   Forsberg, Bruce R ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon; Floodplain lakes; Nutrients; Phytoplankton; Trophic interaction; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); LAKES; LINEAR REGRESSION; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON;

PRODUCTIVITY GRADIENTS; TROPHIC INTERACTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

NITROGEN;

ALGA; BIOMASS; BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; CHLOROPHYLL; FLOODPLAIN; FOOD WEB; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SIZE STRUCTURE; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; ZOOPLANKTON;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

ALGAE;

EID: 34249052598     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-007-0705-7     Document Type: Article

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