Millennial-scale relationships of diatom species richness and production in two prairie lakes

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 49, Issue 4 II, 2004, Pages 1290-1299

  Rusak, James A ^a,c   Leavitt, Peter R ^a   McGowan, Suzanne ^a   Chen, Gemai ^a,d   Olson, Olaf ^a   Wunsam, Sybille ^a,e   Cumming, Brian F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^e NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIATOM; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; LAKE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; PROCRUSTES;

EID: 3843091503     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2004.49.4_part_2.1290     Document Type: Article

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