Importance of large colony formation in bloom-forming cyanobacteria to dominate in eutrophic ponds

Annales de Limnologie

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 167-173

  Yamamoto, Yoshimasa ^a   Shiah, Fuh Kwo ^a   Chen, Yi Lung ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Colony size; Cyanobacterial blooms; Filament length; Nutrient concentration; Relative abundance

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; COLONY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DOMINANCE; EUTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PLANKTON; POND; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

TAIWAN;

ANABAENA; ANABAENA CRASSA; CYANOBACTERIA; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS RACIBORSKII; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA; PLANKTOTHRICOIDES RACIBORSKII;

EID: 79961098396     PISSN: 00034088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/limn/2011013     Document Type: Article

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