Shifts in Zooplankton Community Structure: Implications for Food Web Processes in the Upper San Francisco Estuary

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 675-690

  Winder, Monika ^a,b   Jassby, Alan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon biomass; Copepods; Invasion; Limnoithona; Mysids; Sacramento San Joaquin Delta; Trophic interactions; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIOMASS; BIVALVE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRUSTACEAN; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; FISH; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD WEB; LARVA; NATIVE SPECIES; PREY AVAILABILITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPHIC INTERACTION; TROPHIC LEVEL; ZOOPLANKTON;

CALIFORNIA; SACRAMENTO-SAN JOAQUIN DELTA; SAN FRANCISCO ESTUARY; SUISUN BAY; UNITED STATES;

BIVALVIA; CALANOIDA; COPEPODA; CYCLOPOIDA; LIMNOITHONA; MYSIDA; PSEUDODIAPTOMUS; ROTIFERA;

EID: 79958074820     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-010-9342-x     Document Type: Article

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