Terrestrial carbon is a resource, but not a subsidy, for lake zooplankton

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1236-1242

  Kelly, Patrick T ^a   Solomon, Christopher T ^b   Weidel, Brian C ^c   Jones, Stuart E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allochthony; DOC; Light extinction coefficient; Resource subsidy; Terrestrial carbon; Zooplankton production

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHONY; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT; FOOD WEB; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; RESOURCE USE; SUBSIDY SYSTEM; ZOOPLANKTON;

CARBON;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; LAKE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; CARBON; ECOSYSTEM; LAKES; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 84903643184     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-1586.1     Document Type: Article

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