Effects of experimental greenhouse warming on phytoplankton and zooplankton communities in fishless alpine ponds

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 49, Issue 4 I, 2004, Pages 1182-1190

  Strecker, Angela L ^a,b   Cobb, Tyler P ^a,c   Vinebrooke, Rolf D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GLOBAL WARMING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PHYTOPLANKTON; ZOOPLANKTON;

ALBERTA; BANFF NATIONAL PARK; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; CLADOCERA; CONOCHILUS; CONOCHILUS UNICORNIS; COPEPODA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA PULEX; KERATELLA; KERATELLA COCHLEARIS; MALLOMONAS; MOUGEOTIA; PHYMATODOCIS; PULEX; ROTIFERA; SYNURA; TRACHELOMONAS;

EID: 3843090377     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2004.49.4.1182     Document Type: Article

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