Macrophytes and periphyton carbon subsidies to bacterioplankton and zooplankton in a shallow eutrophic lake in tropical China

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 375-385

  de Kluijver, A ^a,h   Ning, J ^b   Liu, Z ^b,c,d   Jeppesen, E ^d,e   Gulati, R D ^f   Middelburg, J J ^g  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^d Sino Danish Education and Research Centre   (China)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^f NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^g UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^h DELTARES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPLANKTON; BIOMARKER; CARBON BALANCE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; EUTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; MACROPHYTE; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; PERIPHYTON; SHALLOW WATER; STABLE ISOTOPE; ZOOPLANKTON;

CHINA; HANGZHOU; WEST LAKE [HANGZHOU]; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 84999749728     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lno.10040     Document Type: Article

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