Water temperature and stratification depth independently shift cardinal events during plankton spring succession

Global Change Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1954-1965

  Berger, Stella A ^a,b   Diehl, Sebastian ^a,c   Stibor, Herwig ^a,d   Trommer, Gabriele ^a   Ruhenstroth, Miriam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EUROPÉEN DE LA MER   (France)

Author keywords

Ciliates; Clearwater phase; Daphnia hyalina; Enclosure experiment; Mesocosms; Phytoplankton spring bloom

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; GLOBAL WARMING; GROWTH RESPONSE; LAKE WATER; MESOCOSM; PHENOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STRATIFICATION; SUCCESSION; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; WATER COLUMN; WATER TEMPERATURE;

CILIOPHORA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA HYALINA;

EID: 77954173136     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02134.x     Document Type: Article

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