Selective feeding on natural phytoplankton by Calanus finmarchicus before, during, and after the 1997 spring bloom in the Norwegian Sea

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 154-165

  Meyer Harms, Bettina ^a,b   Irigoien, Xabier ^b   Head, Robert ^b   Harris, Roger ^b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYTOPLANKTON; ZOOPLANKTON;

NORWEGIAN SEA;

CALANUS FINMARCHICUS; PHAEOCYSTIS POUCHETII; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 0033018218     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1999.44.1.0154     Document Type: Article

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