Chaoborus predation and sex-specific mortality in a copepod

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 572-577

  Svensson, Jan Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOBORUS; COPEPODA; DIAPTOMIDAE; EUDIAPTOMUS GRACILIS;

EID: 0030769571     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1997.42.3.0572     Document Type: Article

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