Using the guild ratio to characterize pelagic rotifer communities

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 662, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 157-162

  Obertegger, Ulrike ^a   Smith, Hilary A ^b   Flaim, Giovanna ^a   Wallace, Robert L ^c  

^a RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c RIPON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Community structure; Seasonal pattern; Trait based; Trophi; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DOMINANCE; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; GUILD STRUCTURE; INVERTEBRATE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; SAMPLING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ITALY; LAKE CALDONAZZO; LAKE WASHINGTON; TRENTINO-ALTO ADIGE; TRENTO; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

ROTIFERA;

EID: 79959469417     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0491-5     Document Type: Article

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