Factors influencing zooplankton size structure at contrasting temperatures in coastal shallow lakes: Implications for effects of climate change

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1697-1711

  Brucet, Sandra ^a,b,c   Boix, Dani ^c   Quintana, Xavier D ^c   Jensen, Elisabeth ^a   Nathansen, Louise W ^a   Trochine, Carolina ^a,d   Meerhoff, Mariana ^a,e   Gascó, Stéphanie ^c   Jeppesen, Erik ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^d LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC PLANT; BRACKISH WATER; COASTAL ZONE; FISH; GLOBAL WARMING; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PLANKTIVORE; PREDATION; SALINE LAKE; SALINITY; SHALLOW WATER; SIZE STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPHIC STRUCTURE; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 77955643535     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2010.55.4.1697     Document Type: Article

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