Why are daphnia in some lakes sicker? disease ecology, habitat structure, and the plankton

BioScience

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 363-375

  Hall, Spencer R ^a   Smyth, Robyn ^c   Becker, Claes R ^b   Duffy, Meghan A ^d   Knight, Christine J ^e   MacIntyre, Sally ^c   Tessier, Alan J ^f   Cceres, Carla E ^e  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SWECO AB   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^f NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Dilution effect; Gravity currents; Host parasite interaction; Productivity; Selective predation

Indexed keywords

DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA DENTIFERA; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; METSCHNIKOWIA BICUSPIDATA; PISCES;

EID: 77952138582     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2010.60.5.6     Document Type: Article

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