Gross growth efficiencies of protozoan and metazoan zooplankton and their dependence on food concentration, predator-prey weight ratio, and taxonomic group

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1375-1385

  Straile, Dietmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD QUALITY; GROWTH; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

CILIOPHORA; COPEPODA; CRUSTACEA; DINOPHYCEAE; METAZOA; PROTOZOA; ROTIFERA;

EID: 0031395979     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1997.42.6.1375     Document Type: Article

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