Strategies of phenotypic low-food adaptation in Daphnia: Filter screens, mesh sizes, and appendage beat rates

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 216-223

  Lampert, Winfried ^a   Brendelberger, Heinz ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAPHNIA;

EID: 0029784070     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1996.41.2.0216     Document Type: Article

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