Relation between nematode communities and trophic state in southern Swedish lakes

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 663, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 121-133

  Ristau, Kai ^a   Traunspurger, Walter ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bioindicators; Community patterns; Diversity; Feeding types; Lake trophy

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOINDICATOR; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; LAKE; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEMATODE; OMNIVORY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; THRESHOLD; TROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; TROPHIC LEVEL;

SWEDEN;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BREVITOBRILUS STEFANSKII; ETHMOLAIMUS PRATENSIS; EUMONHYSTERA; MONHYSTERA PALUDICOLA; NEMATODA; PRODESMODORA CIRCULATA; RHABDOLAIMUS TERRESTRIS; SEMITOBRILUS PELLUCIDUS; TOBRILUS GRACILIS;

EID: 79959808168     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0564-5     Document Type: Article

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