Turbulence-induced contact rates of plankton: The question of scale

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 166, Issue , 1998, Pages 307-310

  Visser, André W ^a   MacKenzie, Brian R ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Encounter rate; Plankton; Predation; Spatial scale; Turbulence; Turbulent velocity scale

Indexed keywords

ENCOUNTER RATE; MODELLING; PLANKTON; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPATIAL SCALE;

EID: 0032574943     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps166307     Document Type: Article

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