Bottom-up or top-down - How is the autotrophic picoplankton mainly controlled? Results of long-term investigations from two drinking water reservoirs of different trophic state

Limnologica

Volumn 38, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 302-312

  Horn, Heidemarie ^a   Horn, Wolfgang ^a  

^a Saxon Academy of Sciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autotrophic picoplankton; Bottom up control; Daphnids; Long term investigations; Protozoans; Rotifers; Top down control

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AUTOTROPHY; BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; CYANOBACTERIUM; MESOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PHOSPHORUS CYCLE; PICOPLANKTON; RESERVOIR; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC STATUS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; NEUNZEHNHAIN RESERVOIR; SAIDENBACH RESERVOIR; SAXONY;

CYANOBACTERIA; DAPHNIIDAE; PROTOZOA; ROTIFERA;

EID: 56749169877     PISSN: 00759511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.limno.2008.05.007     Document Type: Article

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