Microbial loop processes shape the food web stoichiometry in Lake Kinneret

MODSIM 2011 - 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation - Sustaining Our Future: Understanding and Living with Uncertainty

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3726-3732

  Li, Y ^a,b   Gal, G ^c   Waite, A M ^a   Hipsey, M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

DYRESM CAEDYM; Food web stoichiometry; Lake Kinneret; Microbial loop

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; AVAILABLE NUTRIENTS; DYNAMIC SHIFT; DYRESM-CAEDYM; ECOLOGICAL MODELS; FOOD WEBS; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; INORGANIC MATTERS; LAKE KINNERET; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; MICROBIAL LOOP; N:P RATIO; NUTRIENT CYCLING; NUTRIENT FLUXES; NUTRIENT RECYCLING; PELAGIC ZONES; PHYTOPLANKTON COMMUNITY; PHYTOPLANKTON SPECIES; SUBMODELS; TROPHIC LEVEL;

BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEMS; LAKES; PHYTOPLANKTON; STOICHIOMETRY;

NUTRIENTS;

EID: 84863367464     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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