Cyanobacteria dominance influences resource use efficiency and community turnover in phytoplankton and zooplankton communities

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 464-474

  Filstrup, Christopher T ^a   Hillebrand, Helmut ^b   Heathcote, Adam J ^a   Harpole, W Stanley ^a   Downing, John A ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Community turnover; Cyanobacteria; Diversity; Evenness; Phytoplankton; Resource use efficiency; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; CYANOBACTERIUM; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PHYTOPLANKTON; RESOURCE USE; ZOOPLANKTON;

CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCYSTIS; MICROCYSTIS SP.;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY TURNOVER; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIVERSITY; EVENNESS; LAKE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESOURCE USE EFFICIENCY; ZOOPLANKTON;

COMMUNITY TURNOVER; CYANOBACTERIA; DIVERSITY; EVENNESS; PHYTOPLANKTON; RESOURCE USE EFFICIENCY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CYANOBACTERIA; LAKES; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 84895552384     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12246     Document Type: Article

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