Is competition important to arctic zooplankton community structure?

• Published in: Freshwater Biology
• Main Authors: Dzialowski, Andrew R., John O'Brien, W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2004
• Subjects: Arctic; Dam Pond; Zooplankton; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2427.2004.01250.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1365-2427.2004.01250.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-2427.2004.01250.x

Summary 1. Daphnia pulex and Daphnia middendorffiana are commonly found in the Toolik Lake region of arctic Alaska. These two species are very similar morphologically, although their natural distributions differ markedly: D. pulex is restricted to shallow ponds, while D. middendorffiana is widely di...