Examining shifts in zooplankton community variability following biological invasion

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 399-408

  Mines, Conor H ^a   Ghadouani, Anas ^a   Legendre, Pierre ^b   Yan, Norman D ^c   Ivey, Gregory N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BODY SIZE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; SAMPLING; TAXONOMY; ZOOPLANKTON;

CANADA; HARP LAKE; ONTARIO [CANADA];

BYTHOTREPHES; BYTHOTREPHES LONGIMANUS;

EID: 84872519816     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2013.58.1.0399     Document Type: Article

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