Responses of the rotifer brachionus calyciflorus to two tropical toxic cyanobacteria (cylindrospermopsis raciborskii and microcystis aeruginosa) in pure and mixed diets with green algae

Journal of Plankton Research

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 999-1008

  Soares, Maria Carolina Silva ^a,b   Lürling, Miquel ^b   Huszar, Vera L M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clearance rate; Feeding inhibition; Grazing cyanobacteria; Plankton interactions

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOASSAY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIET; DOMINANCE; EUTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING MECHANISM; GREEN ALGA; GROWTH RATE; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIPLE BROODING; TOXICITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

BRACHIONUS; BRACHIONUS CALYCIFLORUS; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS RACIBORSKII; MICROCYSTIS; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA; ROTIFERA;

EID: 77953314470     PISSN: 01427873     EISSN: 14643774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbq042     Document Type: Article

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