Periodic picophytoplankton predominance in a large, shallow alkaline lake (Lake Ferto″, Neusiedlersee)

Annales de Limnologie

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 9-19

  Somogyi, Boglárka ^a   Felföldi, Tamás ^b   Dinka, Mária ^c   Vörös, Lajos ^a  

^a BALATON LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c Hungarian Danube Research Station of the HAS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Autotrophic picoplankton; Lake Ferto ; Molecular analysis; Phytoplankton composition; Water transparency

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIATOM; EPIPHYTE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MEROPLANKTON; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; OPEN WATER; PHYTOPLANKTON; PICOPLANKTON; SAMPLING; SHALLOW WATER;

NEUSIEDLER SEE;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLOROPHYTA; CRYPTOPHYTA; CYANOBIUM GRACILE;

EID: 77950402427     PISSN: 00034088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/limn/2010001     Document Type: Article

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