Direct and indirect effects of an invasive planktonic predator on pelagic food webs

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 179-192

  Strecker, Angela L ^a   Beisner, Beatrix E ^b   Arnott, Shelley E ^a   Paterson, Andrew M ^c   Winter, Jennifer G ^c   Johannsson, Ora E ^d   Yan, Norman D ^e  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c ONTARIO MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Canada)

^d FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^e YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRUSTACEAN; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FOOD WEB; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PLANKTON; SAMPLING; TAXONOMY; VERTEBRATE;

BYTHOTREPHES; CRUSTACEA; INVERTEBRATA; ROTIFERA;

EID: 78651400833     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2011.56.1.0179     Document Type: Article

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