Limnological aspects of two tropical crater lakes (Lago Biao and Lago Loreto) on the island of Bioko (Equatorial Guinea)

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 524, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 79-90

  Schabetsberger, Robert ^a   Drozdowski, Gabriele ^b   Drozdowski, Irene ^b   Jersabek, Christian D ^a   Rott, Eugen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Africa; phytoplankton; tropical; vertical distribution; volcanic lakes; zooplankton

Indexed keywords

LIMONOLOGY; ROTIFERS;

ACIDITY; BACTERIA; LAKES; PH EFFECTS; PLANTS (BOTANY); WATER;

HYDROLOGY;

CRATER LAKE; LIMNOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

AFRICA; BIOKO; CENTRAL AFRICA; EQUATORIAL GUINEA; LAKE BIAO; LAKE LORETO; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ALGAE; ANURAEOPSIS FISSA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRACHIONUS; BRACHIONUS ANGULARIS; CHAOBORUS; CHLOROPHYTA; CLADOCERA; COPEPODA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA LAEVIS; DESMIDIALES; DINOPHYCEAE; MUS; POLYARTHRA; ROTIFERA; TRICHOCERCA; TRICHOCERCA SIMILIS; TROPOCYCLOPS PRASINUS; VISCUM; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 3943106896     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:HYDR.0000036121.07007.e8     Document Type: Article

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