The impact of population abundance on the deposit-feeding rate of a cosmopolitan polychaete worm

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1948-1953

  Wheatcroft, Robert A ^a,b   Starczak, Victoria R ^a   Butman, Cheryl Ann ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSIT FEEDER; INGESTION RATE; POPULATION SIZE;

ANIMALIA; CAPITELLIDAE; MEDIOMASTUS AMBISETA; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 0032426570     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1998.43.8.1948     Document Type: Article

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