Abundance, species composition and spatial distribution of planktonic rotifers and crustaceans in Lake Ziway (Rift Valley, Ethiopia)

International Review of Hydrobiology

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 210-226

  Dagne, Adamneh ^a   Herzig, Alois ^b   Jersabek, Christian D ^c   Tadesse, Zenebe ^a  

^a National Fisheries and Other Living Aquatic Resources Research Center   (Ethiopia)

^b Biological Station Neusiedlersee   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cladocera; Copepoda; Rotifera; Tropical lake; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; LAKES; OFFSHORE OIL FIELDS; PHYTOPLANKTON; TURBIDITY;

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CRUSTACEAN; DOMINANCE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; ZOOPLANKTON;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; LAKE ZIWAY; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ANURAEOPSIS FISSA; BRACHIONUS ANGULARIS; CLADOCERA; COPEPODA; CRUSTACEA; DIAPHANOSOMA EXCISUM; FILINIA; MOINA MICRURA; ROTIFERA; THERMOCYCLOPS DECIPIENS; TRICHOCERCA RUTTNERI;

EID: 54549117988     PISSN: 14342944     EISSN: 15222632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iroh.200711005     Document Type: Article

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