Effect of shrimp stocking density on size-fractionated phytoplankton and ecological groups of ciliated protozoa within zero-water exchange shrimp culture systems

Journal of the World Aquaculture Society

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 395-406

  Decamp, Olivier ^a,c   Conquest, Lytha ^a   Cody, Jeff ^a   Forster, Ian ^a   Tacon, Albert G J ^b  

^a OCEANIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c INVE Technolgoies NV   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CILIATE; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PROTOZOAN; SHRIMP CULTURE; STOCKING DENSITY; WATER EXCHANGE;

CILIOPHORA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); LITOPENAEUS VANNAMEI; MYXOZOA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 34548279043     PISSN: 08938849     EISSN: 17497345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-7345.2007.00111.x     Document Type: Article

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