Taxon-specific ingestion rates of natural phytoplankton by calanoid copepods in an estuarine environment (Pomeranian Bight, Baltic Sea) determined by cell counts and HPLC analyses of marker pigments

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 153, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 181-190

  Meyer Harms, Bettina ^a,b   Von Bodungen, Bodo ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acartia bifilosa; Baltic Sea; C:chl a ratios; Chl a:marker pigment ratios; Food selection; Ingestion rates; Pigment biomarkers; Pomeranian Bight

Indexed keywords

ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; ESTUARY; FOOD CONSUMPTION; MARKER PIGMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; ZOOPLANKTON;

BALTIC SEA; POMERANIAN BIGHT;

ACARTIA BIFILOSA; ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLOROPHYTA; COPEPODA; CRYPTOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 0030746433     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps153181     Document Type: Article

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