Ecosystem consequences of cyanobacteria in the northern Baltic Sea

Ambio

Volumn 36, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 195-202

  Karjalainen, Miina ^a   Engström Öst, Jonna ^a   Korpinen, Samuli ^b   Peltonen, Heikki ^c   Pääkkönen, Jari Pekka ^a   Rönkkönen, Sanna ^a   Suikkanen, Sanna ^a   Viitasalo, Markku ^a  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; CRUSTACEAN; CYANOBACTERIUM; FEEDING; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD WEB; GROWTH RESPONSE; METABOLISM; NITROGEN FIXATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; TOXIN; TROPHIC LEVEL; ZOOPLANKTON;

CHLOROPHYTA; COPEPODA; CRUSTACEA; CRYPTOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DINOPHYCEAE; GAMMARIDAE; MYSIDA; MYTILUS EDULIS; PLEURONECTOIDEI;

EID: 34250664885     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2007)36[195:ECOCIT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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108. Marja Koski and two anonymous referees are acknowledged for valuable comments. Funding was provided by the Academy of Finland (grant no. 202437), Maj and Tor Nessling Foundation, and Walter and Andrée de Nottbeck Foundation. This paper is a contribution of the BIREME research project "Trophic Interactions in the Baltic Sea: How are Zooplankton Communities and Commercially Important Fish Stocks Regulated?" Figures were republished with kind permission from Inter-Research Science Center (Figures 1, 2, 4), Oxford University Press (Figure 3), Elsevier (Figure 5). Springer Science and Business Media (Figures 6 and 10), John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (Figure 7), and American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Inc. (Figure 11).