Diet-specific biomarkers show that high-quality phytoplankton fuels herbivorous zooplankton in large boreal lakes

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1902-1915

  Galloway, Aaron W E ^a,b   Taipale, Sami J ^c   Hiltunen, Minna ^a   Peltomaa, Elina ^d   Strandberg, Ursula ^a   Brett, Michael T ^e   Kankaala, Paula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Allochthony; Bayesian mixing model; Daphnia; Fatty acids; Resource partitioning

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROPHYTA; CHRYSOPHYCEAE; CLADOCERA; CRYPTOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 84904035099     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12394     Document Type: Article

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