Individual Cell Based Traits Obtained by Scanning Flow-Cytometry Show Selection by Biotic and Abiotic Environmental Factors during a Phytoplankton Spring Bloom

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Pomati, Francesco ^a,b   Kraft, Nathan J B ^c   Posch, Thomas ^d   Eugster, Bettina ^d   Jokela, Jukka ^b   Ibelings, Bas W ^a,e  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c University of Maryland   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIGMENT; WATER;

ABIOTIC ENVIRONMENT; ALGAL BLOOM; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BIOTIC ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRAZER; GRAZING; HERBIVORE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SPRING; SWITZERLAND; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION;

ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EUTROPHICATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; LAKES; PHYTOPLANKTON; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SEASONS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84881532792     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071677     Document Type: Article

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