Nutrient utilization traits vary systematically with intraspecific cell size plasticity

Functional Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1745-1755

  Malerba, Martino E ^a,b   Heimann, Kirsten ^a   Connolly, Sean R ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

allometric scaling; environmental gradients; green alga; intraspecific trait variability; kinetic parameters; nitrogen assimilation; observation error; process noise; process based models; time series

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; GREEN ALGA; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; NITROGEN; NOISE; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; NUTRIENT USE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SIZE; TIME SERIES;

CHLOROPHYTA; DESMODESMUS;

EID: 84966559317     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12662     Document Type: Article

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