Effects of Water Color on Food Web Structure in Freshwater Lakes

Water color has multiple effects on freshwater lakes, changing the vertical profiles of light, temperature, and oxygen. Therefore, increased water color should reduce planktivory by visually guided fish, but invertebrate predators such as Chaoborus should become more important. Since fish prefer lar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wissel, Bjoern
Other Authors: Charles W. Ramcharan
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2001
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-1019101-092354/