Zooplankton communities of Deepor Beel (a Ramsar site), Assam (N. E. India): Ecology, richness, and abundance

Tropical Ecology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 293-302

  Sharma, B K ^a  

^a NORTH EASTERN HILL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Abundance; Ramsar site; Richness; Synecology; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORRELATION; CRUSTACEAN; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; DOMINANCE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; LIMNOLOGY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WATER TEMPERATURE; ZOOPLANKTON;

ASSAM; DEEPOR BEEL; INDIA;

CLADOCERA; CONCHOSTRACA; COPEPODA; OSTRACODA; RHIZOPODA; ROTIFERA;

EID: 79959520944     PISSN: 05643295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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