Are in situ weight-specific growth rates body-size independent in marine planktonic copepods? A re-analysis of the global syntheses and a new empirical model

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 154, Issue , 1997, Pages 155-165

  Hirst, Andrew G ^a,b   Sheader, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allometry; Copepods; Generation time; Temperature; Weight specific fecundity; Weight specific growth

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; COPEPODS; GROWTH; GROWTH ESTIMATION; GROWTH RATE; ZOOPLANKTON;

COPEPODA;

EID: 0030762548     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps154155     Document Type: Article

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