Phytoplankton Growth Balanced by Clam and Zooplankton Grazing and Net Transport into the Low-Salinity Zone of the San Francisco Estuary

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1202-1218

  Kimmerer, Wim J ^a   Thompson, Janet K ^b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bivalve; Microzooplankton; Mixing diagram; Potamocorbula amurensis

Indexed keywords

BIVALVIA; POTAMOCORBULA AMURENSIS;

BIVALVE; CHLOROPHYLL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; FOOD WEB; GRAZING; GROWTH RATE; MASS BALANCE; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SALINITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

CALIFORNIA; SAN FRANCISCO ESTUARY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84905588649     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-013-9753-6     Document Type: Article

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