Food-web-mediated effects of climate warming: Consequences for the seasonal Daphnia dynamics

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 573-587

  Wagner, Annekatrin ^a   Hülsmann, Stephan ^a   Horn, Wolfgang ^b   Schiller, Thomas ^a   Schulze, Torsten ^a,c   Volkmann, Sven ^a   Benndorf, Jürgen ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Saxon Academy of Sciences   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT FÜR SEEFISCHEREI   (Germany)

Author keywords

Leptodora kindtii; Match mismatch; Perca fluviatilis; Phenology; Top down control

Indexed keywords

DAPHNIA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPTODORA; LEPTODORA KINDTII; PERCA FLUVIATILIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84873414799     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2012.02809.x     Document Type: Article

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