Diurnal and vertical grazing activity of mesozooplankton during summer on the SW coast of Finland

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 137-146

  Uitto, Anna ^a  

^a Division of Hydrobiology ^*  (Finland)

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