Bottom-up carbon subsidies and top-down predation pressure interact to affect aquatic food web structure

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 311-320

  Faithfull, C L ^a   Huss, M ^a,b   Vrede, T ^a,c   Bergstrom A K ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Institute of Coastal Research   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRUSTACEAN; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DRINKING WATER; EUTROPHICATION; FOOD WEB; MESOCOSM; PHYTOPLANKTON; TOP-DOWN APPROACH; TROPHIC CASCADE; ZOOPLANKTON;

SWEDEN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; CRUSTACEA; PERCA FLUVIATILIS; ROTIFERA;

EID: 78751625855     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18683.x     Document Type: Article

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