Phytoplankton diversity and strategies in regard to physical disturbances in a shallow, oligotrophic, tropical reservoir in Southeast Brazil

Limnetica

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 159-174

  Ma Rosella, M Lopes ^a   Ferragut, Carla ^b   Bicudo, Carlos E M ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ACRE   (Brazil)

^b Instituto de Pesquisas Ambientais do Estado de São Paulo   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biological indices; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Phytoplankton; Thermal stratification and mixing

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DOMINANCE; GREEN ALGA; INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS; NATURE RESERVE; PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE; PHYTOPLANKTON; RESERVOIR; VERTICAL PROFILE;

BRAZIL; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL];

CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS DEBARYANA; OOCYSTIS LACUSTRIS; PERIDINIUM GATUNENSE;

EID: 77954987873     PISSN: 02138409     EISSN: 19891806     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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