Discriminating zooplankton communities in lakes with brook trout (salvelinus fontinalis) and in fishless lakes

Ecoscience

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 271-281

  Drouin, Annick ^a   Sirois, Pascal ^a   Archambault, Philippe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À CHICOUTIMI   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE LA MER DE RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brook trout; Chaoborus americanus; Fishless lakes; Invertebrate predation; Zooplankton assemblages

Indexed keywords

ANNELID; BARRIER ISLAND; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ESCARPMENT; ICE FREE CORRIDOR; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LARVA; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SALMONID; SAMPLING; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; ZOOPLANKTON;

BOREAL SHIELD; CANADA;

CHAOBORUS AMERICANUS; DAPHNIIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; ROTIFERA; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 76149091181     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2980/16-3-3152     Document Type: Article

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