Grazing of toxic dinoflagellates, Alexandrium spp., by adult copepods of coastal Maine: Implications for the fate of paralytic shellfish toxins in marine food webs

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 196, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 145-176

  Teegarden, Gregory J ^a,b   Cembella, Allan D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acartia; Alexandrium; Copepods; Eurytemora; Paralytic shellfish poisoning; Phycotoxins

Indexed keywords

NEUROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; COPEPOD; DINOFLAGELLATE; DISEASE CARRIER; FOOD CHAIN; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

COPEPOD; FEEDING BEHAVIOUR; FOOD WEB; FOOD WEBS; GRAZING; NEUROTOXINS; PARALYTIC SHELLFISH POISONING; TOXIC DINOFLAGELLATE;

USA, MAINE;

ACARTIA TONSA; ALEXANDRIUM; ALEXANDRIUM SPP.; EURYTEMORA HERDMANI;

EID: 0030088531     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0022-0981(95)00128-X     Document Type: Article

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