Changes in turbulent mixing shift competition for light between phytoplankton species

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2960-2970

  Huisman, Jef ^a   Sharples, Jonathan ^b,e   Stroom, Jasper M ^c   Visser, Petra M ^a   Kardinaal, W Edwin A ^a   Verspagen, Jolanda M H ^a   Sommeijer, Ben ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Development   (Netherlands)

^d CWI   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competition model; Harmful algal blooms; Microcystis; P clet number; Photosynthesis; Regime shift; Resource competition; Temperature microstructure; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; PHYTOPLANKTON; TURBULENT MIXING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLOROPHYTA; MICROCYSTIS;

EID: 8544264318     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-0763     Document Type: Article

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