Use of aniline blue to distinguish live and dead crustacean zooplankton composition in freshwaters

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 971-981

  Bickel, Samantha L ^a   Tang, Kam W ^a   Grossart, Hans Peter ^b  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aniline blue; Cladoceran; Copepod; Staining method; Zooplankton carcasses

Indexed keywords

COPEPODA; CRUSTACEA;

EID: 64149122762     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.02141.x     Document Type: Article

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