Seasonal succession and composition of the zooplankton community along an eutrophication and salinity gradient exemplified by Danish waters

Journal of Plankton Research

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1475-1492

  Zervoudaki, Soultana ^a   Nielsen, Torkel Gissel ^b   Carstensen, Jacob ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL A; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CRUSTACEAN; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; EUTROPHICATION; GRAZING; OPEN WATER; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SALINITY; SUCCESSION; ZOOPLANKTON;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

COPEPODA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 70449625319     PISSN: 01427873     EISSN: 14643774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbp084     Document Type: Article

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