Zooplankton response to shading effects of free-floating plants in shallow warm temperate lakes: A field mesocosm experiment

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 646, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 231-242

  Fontanarrosa, M S ^a,b   Chaparro, G ^a   de Tezanos Pinto, P ^a,b   Rodriguez, P ^a,b   O'Farrell, I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Anoxia; Field experiment; Light attenuation; Shallow lake

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; ARTIFICIAL SHADING; CASCADING EFFECTS; DRIVING FORCES; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FORCE SHAPING; LIGHT ATTENUATION; MESOCOSMS; OXYGEN DEPLETION; OXYGEN DYNAMICS; OXYGEN LIMITATION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SHADING EFFECT; SHALLOW LAKES; STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS; SUBTROPICAL LAKES; SUBTROPICAL SHALLOW LAKES; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOP DOWN EFFECTS; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TOPDOWN; WATER COLUMNS; ZOOPLANKTON ASSEMBLAGES; ZOOPLANKTON DYNAMICS;

ALGAE CONTROL; ANIMALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; LAKES; LIGHT; OXYGEN; PHYTOPLANKTON;

EXPERIMENTS;

ANOXIA; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; HERBIVORE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LIGHT ATTENUATION; MESOCOSM; PERSISTENCE; PHYTOPLANKTON; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SHADING; SIMULATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; WATER COLUMN; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 77952012027     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0183-1     Document Type: Article

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