Responses of the predatory rotifer Asplanchna intermedia to prey species differing in vulnerability: Laboratory and field studies

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 521-533

  Iyer, Nandini ^a   Rao, T Ramakrishna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; NUMERICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ASPLANCHNA INTERMEDIA; BRACHIONUS CALYCIFLORUS; BRACHIONUS PATULUS; BRACHIONUS RUBENS; FILINIA LONGISETA; HEXARTHRA MIRA; ROTIFERA;

EID: 0030303508     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1996.d01-510.x     Document Type: Article

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