Lake Tahoe vs. Lake Kinneret phytoplankton: Comparison of long-term taxonomic size structure consistency

Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 195-203

  Kamenir, Yury ^a   Winder, Monika ^b   Dubinsky, Zvy ^a   Zohary, Tamar ^c   Schladow, Geoff ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

Community structure stability; Phytoplankton; Size frequency distribution; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SIZE STRUCTURE; TAXONOMY;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; LAKE TAHOE; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN DISTRICT; SEA OF GALILEE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44649185596     PISSN: 10151621     EISSN: 14209055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00027-008-8087-0     Document Type: Article

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