The relative importance of physicochemical factors and crustacean zooplankton as determinants of rotifer density and species distribution in lakes adjacent to the Yangtze River, China

Limnologica

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-7

  Wang, Songbo ^a,b   Xie, Ping ^b   Geng, Hong ^a  

^a SOUTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOR NATIONALITIES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Morphological characteristics; Trophic status; Variation partitioning

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEAN; FACTOR ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; TROPHIC STATUS; ZOOPLANKTON;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YANGTZE RIVER;

CRUSTACEA; DAPHNIA; MOINA MICRURA; ROTIFERA; SINOCALANUS;

EID: 70449733010     PISSN: 00759511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.limno.2009.03.001     Document Type: Article

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