The pelagic community of a gravel pit lake: Significance of Coleps hirtus viridis (Prostomatida) and its role as a scavenger

Limnologica

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 187-198

  Auer, Brigitte ^a   Czioska, Elvira ^a   Arndt, Hartmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Growth rate; Mortality scavenger; Vertical distribution

Indexed keywords

CILIATE; GROWTH RATE; MORTALITY; SCAVENGER; SEASONAL VARIATION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; COLOGNE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FUEHLINGER SEE; GERMANY; NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA; WORLD;

ALGAE; CILIOPHORA; CLADOCERA; COLEPS; COLEPS HIRTUS; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; OLIGOTRICHS; PROSTOMATIDA; STROBILIDIUM; VORTICELLA;

EID: 8644251875     PISSN: 00759511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0075-9511(04)80044-6     Document Type: Article

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