Copepod grazing in a subtropical bay: Species-specific responses to a midsummer increase in nanoplankton standing stock

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 193, Issue , 2000, Pages 75-84

  Calbet, Albert ^a,b   Landry, Michael R ^b   Scheinberg, Rebecca D ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrocalanus inermis; Copepod; Ingestion rates; Nanoplankton; O. nana; Oithona simplex; Parvocalanus crassirostris

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CRUSTACEAN; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GRAZING; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; PLANKTON;

HAWAII; KANEOHE BAY; UNITED STATES;

ACROCALANUS; ACROCALANUS INERMIS; ANIMALIA; COPEPODA; CRUSTACEA; OITHONA NANA; OITHONA SIMPLEX; PARACALANUS CRASSIROSTRIS; PARVOCALANUS; PARVOCALANUS CRASSIROSTRIS;

EID: 0034723997     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps193075     Document Type: Article

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