Colorful niches of phytoplankton shaped by the spatial connectivity in a large river ecosystem: A riverscape perspective

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Frenette, Jean Jacques ^a   Massicotte, Philippe ^a   Lapierre, Jean François ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYLL A; PHOSPHORUS;

ALGAL COMMUNITY; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; EUKARYOTE; HYDRODYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PROKARYOTE; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; WATERSHED; AQUATIC SPECIES; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; CYANOBACTERIUM; FOOD CHAIN; LIGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; RIVER; SPECTROSCOPY;

ALGAE;

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATE; CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; FOOD CHAIN; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOSPHORUS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; RIVERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84860494891     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035891     Document Type: Article

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