Lipid biomarkers indicate different ecological niches and trophic relationships of the Arctic hyperiid amphipods Themisto abyssorum and T. libellula

Polar Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 374-383

  Auel, Holger ^a   Harjes, Miriam ^a   Da Rocha, Régine ^a   Stübing, Dorothee ^a   Hagen, Wilhelm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKER; LIPID; NICHE; TROPHIC INTERACTION; TROPHIC LEVEL; ZOOPLANKTON;

ARCTIC OCEAN; FRAM STRAIT;

ALGAE; AMPHIPODA; CALANUS; HYPERIIDAE; LIBELLULA; THEMISTO ABYSSORUM; THEMISTO LIBELLULA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036928139     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-001-0354-7     Document Type: Article

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