Gut clearance rate as predictor of food limitation situations. Application to two estuarine copepods: Acartia bifilosa and Eurytemora affinis

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 131, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 159-163

  Irigoien, Xabier ^a,b   Castel, Jacques ^a   Gasparini, Stéphane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Estuarine copepods; Food limitation; Gut clearance rate; Temperature; Turbidity zone

Indexed keywords

ACARTIA BIFILOSA; EURYTEMORA AFFINIS;

CLEARANCE RATE; COPEPOD; ESTUARIES; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD LIMITATION; GUT CLEARANCE RATE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0029667765     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps131159     Document Type: Article

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