In situ ingestion rates of appendicularian tunicates in the Northeast Water Polynya (NE Greenland)

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 186, Issue , 1999, Pages 149-160

  Acuña, José Luis ^a,b   Deibel, Don ^a   Bochdansky, A B ^a   Hatfield, E ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Appendicularian; Feeding; Gut pigments; Polynya; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

APPENDICULARIA (CLASS); BACILLARIOPHYTA; INVERTEBRATA; OIKOPLEURIDAE; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 0033578562     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps186149     Document Type: Article

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