Food web structures and carbon transfer efficiencies in a brackish water ecosystem

Two differently structured food webs can be distinguished in the pelagic habitat of aquatic systems; the classical one (autotrophic) with phytoplankton as a base and the microbial food web (heterotrophic) with bacteria as a base. Energy (produced at the basal trophic level) reaches higher trophic le...

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Main Author: Dahlgren, Kristin
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Umeå universitet, Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap 2010
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-38014
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7459-087-6