High-speed video analysis of the escape responses of the copepod Acartia tonsa to shadows

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 28-37

  Buskey, Edward J ^a   Hartline, Daniel K ^b  

^a Marine Science Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; LIGHT INTENSITY; SHADING; VIDEOGRAPHY;

ACARTIA; ACARTIA TONSA; ANIMALIA; COPEPODA;

EID: 0037326853     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1543493     Document Type: Article

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