Reduction of grazing activity of two estuarine copepods in response to the exudate of a visual predator

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 177, Issue , 1999, Pages 157-163

  Cieri, Matthew D ^a,b   Stearns, Donald E ^a,c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c WAGNER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acartia hudsonica; Acartia tonsa; Copepod behavior; Copepod grazing; Fish exudates; Menidia menidia; Nocturnal feeding; Visual predation

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CHEMICAL CUE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; GRAZING; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ACARTIA HUDSONICA; ACARTIA TONSA; ANIMALIA; ARGENTINA ELONGATA; COPEPODA; MENIDIA MENIDIA;

EID: 0033545390     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps177157     Document Type: Article

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