The microbial food web structure of a hypertrophic warm-temperate shallow lake, as affected by contrasting zooplankton assemblages

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 714, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 115-130

  Fermani, Paulina ^a   Diovisalvi, Nadia ^a   Torremorell, Ana ^a,b   Lagomarsino, Leonardo ^a   Zagarese, Horacio E ^a   Unrein, Fernando ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOTECNOLÓGICAS   (Argentina)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE CIENCIAS BÁSICAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Heterotrophic flagellates; Picoplankton; Trophic cascade; Trophic coupling

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DOMINANCE; FOOD WEB; GRAZING; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POPULATION DENSITY; SHALLOW WATER; ZOOPLANKTON;

ARGENTINA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COPEPODA; CYCLOPOIDA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); ROTIFERA;

EID: 84879420360     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-013-1528-3     Document Type: Article

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