Effects of grazers' species identity on cyanobacteria in bitrophic and tritrophic food webs

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 329-339

  Fyda, Janusz ^a   Nosek, Jacek ^a   Wi̧ckowski, Krzysztof ^a   Pajdak Stós, Agnieszka ^a   Fiałkowska, Edyta ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Cyanobacteria; Inducible defense; Microcosm; Protozoa

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AUTOTROPHY; BIODIVERSITY; CILIATE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CYANOBACTERIUM; FILTER FEEDER; FLAGELLATE; FOOD WEB; GRAZING; MICROCOSM; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CILIOPHORA; CYANOBACTERIA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; FRESH WATER; MASTIGOPHORA; OLIGOCHAETA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

CHAETOGASTER; CHLOROGONIUM ELONGATUM; CILIOPHORA; CYANOBACTERIA; EUPLOTES; EUPLOTES OCTOCARINATUS; FURGASONIA; FURGASONIA BLOCHMANNI; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PHORMIDIUM; PHORMIDIUM SP.; PROTOZOA; PSEUDOMICROTHORAX; PSEUDOMICROTHORAX DUBIUS; TETMEMENA PUSTULATA;

EID: 65549123074     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2009.00676.x     Document Type: Article

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