Rotifer communities in the Laurentian Great Lakes, 1983-2006 and factors affecting their composition

Journal of Great Lakes Research

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 528-540

  Barbiero, Richard P ^a   Warren, Glenn J ^b  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b US EPA Great Lakes National Program Office   (United States)

Author keywords

Bythotrephes; Cercopagis; Predation; Rotifers; Trophic state; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

BYTHOTREPHES; CERCOPAGIS; PREDATION; ROTIFERS; TROPHIC STATE; ZOOPLANKTON;

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

LAKES;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CRUSTACEAN; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; INVERTEBRATE; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; OPEN WATER; PREDATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TROPHIC CONDITIONS; ZOOPLANKTON;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ERIE;

BRACHIONUS; BYTHOTREPHES; CERCOPAGIS; CERCOPAGIS PENGOI; CONOCHILUS; CONOCHILUS UNICORNIS; FILINIA LONGISETA; KELLICOTTIA; KELLICOTTIA LONGISPINA; KERATELLA; KERATELLA COCHLEARIS; KERATELLA CRASSA; KERATELLA EARLINAE; KERATELLA QUADRATA; PLOESOMA TRUNCATUM; POLYARTHRA; POLYARTHRA MAJOR; POLYARTHRA VULGARIS; ROTIFERA; SYNCHAETA; TRICHOCERA;

EID: 80052378126     PISSN: 03801330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jglr.2011.04.007     Document Type: Article

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