Linking estuarine nematodes to their suspected food. A case study from the Westerschelde Estuary (south-west Netherlands)

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1017-1027

  Moens, Tom ^a   Van Gansbeke, Dirk ^a   Vincx, Magda ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; FOOD CONSUMPTION; METHODOLOGY; MICROALGA; PIGMENT; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

NETHERLANDS;

NEMATODA; PROCHROMADORELLA;

EID: 0033366933     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315499001253     Document Type: Article

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