Phytoplankton, not allochthonous carbon, sustains herbivorous zooplankton production

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 50, 2009, Pages 21197-21201

  Bretta, Michael T ^a   Kainz, Martin J ^b   Taipale, Sami J ^a   Seshana, Hari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Daphnia; Fatty acids; Nutritional ecology; Planktonic food web

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; ORGANIC CARBON;

ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYPTOMONAS; CRYPTOMONAS OZOLINII; CYANOBACTERIUM; DAPHNIA; DIATOM; DIET; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD QUALITY; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORE; LIPID COMPOSITION; NONHUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; SCENEDESMUS; SCENEDESMUS OBLIQUUS; VEGETATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; CARBON; DAPHNIA; FOOD CHAIN; LIPIDS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANT LEAVES; REPRODUCTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLOROPHYTA; CRYPTOMONAS; CRYPTOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; SCENEDESMUS; SCENEDESMUS OBLIQUUS;

EID: 75849138729     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0904129106     Document Type: Article

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