The Good, the Bad and the Plenty: Interactive Effects of Food Quality and Quantity on the Growth of Different Daphnia Species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Bukovinszky, Tibor ^a   Verschoor, Antonie M ^a,b,c   Helmsing, Nico R ^a   Bezemer, T Martijn ^a   Bakker, Elisabeth S ^a   Vos, Matthijs ^d   de Senerpont Domis, Lisette N ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b Ingrepro bv ^*  (Netherlands)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR SUSTAINABLE WATER TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; PHOSPHORUS;

ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; CLUTCH SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA GALEATA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; DAPHNIA PULICARIA; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD QUALITY; GREEN ALGA; GROWTH RATE; JUVENILE ANIMAL; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STOICHIOMETRY;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CARBON; DAPHNIA; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD CHAIN; MALE; PHOSPHORUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SCENEDESMUS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA GALEATA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; DAPHNIA PULICARIA; SCENEDESMUS OBLIQUUS;

EID: 84866673869     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042966     Document Type: Article

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