The role of food quality in clonal succession in Daphnia: An experimental test

Oecologia

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 379-388

  Brzeziński, Tomasz ^a   Dawidowicz, Piotr ^a   von Elert, Eric ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Food quality; Population structure; Predation; Seasonal succession; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

CLONAL GROWTH; CRUSTACEAN; FITNESS; FOOD QUALITY; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GROWTH RATE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATION; SEASONALITY; SPECIALIZATION; SUCCESSION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYPTOPHYTA; DAPHNIA; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FERTILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYBRIDIZATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SCENEDESMUS;

ANIMALS; CRYPTOPHYTA; DAPHNIA; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FERTILITY; GENETIC VARIATION; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SCENEDESMUS;

DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA LONGISPINA;

EID: 77956650011     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1662-9     Document Type: Article

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