Microscale dispersion of meiobenthic copepods in response to food-resource patchiness

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 229-243

  Decho, Alan W ^a   Fleeger, John W ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion; Harpacticoid; Meiobenthos

Indexed keywords

COPEPODS; DIATOMS; HARPACTICOID; MUDFLAT;

MICROARTHRIDION LITTORALE; SCOTTOLANA CANADENSIS;

EID: 0024193565     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0022-0981(88)90075-5     Document Type: Article

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