Large variation in vulnerability to grazing within a population of the colonial phytoplankter, Microcystis aeruginosa

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1714-1724

  White, Jeffrey D ^a   Kaul, Raj Reni B ^b   Knoll, Lesley B ^c   Wilson, Alan E ^b   Sarnellea, Orlando ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; BIVALVE; CLONE; COLONY; CYANOBACTERIUM; FILTER FEEDER; GRAZING; GREEN ALGA; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; SYMPATRY; TOXIC ORGANISM; VULNERABILITY;

ALGAE; CYANOBACTERIA; DREISSENA; DREISSENA POLYMORPHA; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA; PODOHEDRIELLA FALCATA;

EID: 81755171438     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2011.56.5.1714     Document Type: Article

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