"Trophic overyielding": Phytoplankton diversity promotes zooplankton productivity

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2719-2727

  Striebel, Maren ^a,b   Singer, Gabriel ^b,c   Stibor, Herwig ^d,e   Andersen, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Inter University Centre for Aquatic Ecosystem Research   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EUROPÉEN DE LA MER   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Complementarity; Facilitation; Plankton; Predictability; Productivity; Reliability; Trophic transfer

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FRESH WATER; PHOSPHORUS;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BIOMASS; COMPLEMENTARITY; CRUSTACEAN; FACILITATION; FOOD WEB; GROWTH RATE; NICHE OVERLAP; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPHIC LEVEL; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; DAPHNIA; FOOD CHAIN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; DAPHNIA; FOOD CHAIN; FRESH WATER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; ZOOPLANKTON;

DAPHNIA;

EID: 84871797237     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-0003.1     Document Type: Article

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