Macrophytes as refuge or risky area for zooplankton: A balance set by littoral predacious macroinvertebrates

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1042-1053

  Sagrario, González ^a   De Los Ángeles, María ^a,b   Balseiro, Esteban ^b,c   Ituarte, Romina ^a,c   Spivak, Eduardo ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

^c Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Macroinvertebrates; Macrophytes; Predation; Refuge; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

BOSMINA; BUENOA; CALANOIDA; CLADOCERA; COPEPODA; CYANALLAGMA INTERRUPTUM; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DIAPHANOSOMA BRACHYURUM; MOINA MICRURA; NOTODIAPTOMUS; PALAEMONETES ARGENTINUS; ZYGOPTERA;

EID: 64149113303     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.02152.x     Document Type: Article

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