Length-weight relationships of eight freshwater planktonic crustacean species in Japan

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 199-205

  Kawabata, Keiichi ^a   Urabe, Jotaro ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEAN; LENGTH-WEIGHT RELATIONSHIP; PLANKTON;

JAPAN;

ACANTHODIAPTOMUS PACIFICUS; BOSMINA LONGIROSTRIS; DAPHNIA GALEATA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; DAPHNIA SIMILIS; EODIAPTOMUS JAPONICUS; SCAPHOLEBERIS MUCRONATA; SIMOCEPHALUS EXSPINOSUS;

EID: 0031894996     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1998.00267.x     Document Type: Article

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