Measuring life-history omnivory in the opossum shrimp, Mysis relicta, with stable nitrogen isotopes

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 463-467

  Branstrator, Dann K ^a,c   Cabana, Gilbert ^b   Mazumder, Asit ^a   Rasmussen, Joseph B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL ROLE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LIFE HISTORY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OMNIVORY; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DIDELPHIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; MYSIDA; MYSIS RELICTA;

EID: 0034013984     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2000.45.2.0463     Document Type: Article

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