Predation vulnerability of planktonic copepods: Consequences of predator foraging strategies and prey sensory abilities

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 175, Issue , 1998, Pages 129-142

  Viitasalo, Markku ^a,d   Kiørboe, Thomas ^b   Flinkman, Juha ^a,c   Pedersen, Lars W ^b   Visser, André W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c FINNISH INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Finland)

^d Dept of Ecology and Systematics   (Finland)

Author keywords

Escape response; Eurytemora affinis; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Hydrodynamic signals; Neomysis integer; Predation vulnerability; Prey selection; Temora longicornis

Indexed keywords

ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PREDATOR; ZOOPLANKTON;

COPEPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EURYTEMORA AFFINIS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; MYSIDAE; NEOMYSIS INTEGER; TEMORA LONGICORNIS;

EID: 0032542222     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps175129     Document Type: Article

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