Invertebrate grazing and riparian shade as controllers of nuisance algae in a eutrophic river

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2580-2593

  Sturt, Michael M ^a   Jansen, Marcel A K ^a   Harrison, Simon S C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Bottom up control; Invertebrate grazing; Light limitation; Nutrient enrichment; Top down control

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BAETIS; CLADOPHORA; CLADOPHORA GLOMERATA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 80054027555     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2011.02684.x     Document Type: Article

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