Digestive kinematics of suspension-feeding bivalves: Modeling and measuring particle-processing in the gut of Potamocorbula amurensis

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 197, Issue , 2000, Pages 181-192

  Penry, Deborah L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bivalve; Digestion; Gut model; Gut residence time; Internal particle sorting; Suspension feeding

Indexed keywords

DIGESTION; FILTER FEEDER; FOOD AVAILABILITY; INGESTION RATE; KINEMATICS; MOLLUSC;

BIVALVIA; POTAMOCORBULA AMURENSIS;

EID: 0034640513     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps197181     Document Type: Article

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