Nitrate enrichment alters a Daphnia-microparasite interaction through multiple pathways

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 243-250

  Dallas, Tad ^a   Drake, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental change; Eutrophication; Host pathogen; Metschnikowia

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA DENTIFERA; METSCHNIKOWIA BICUSPIDATA;

EID: 84927622315     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.925     Document Type: Article

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