Effects of the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense on the copepod Acartia hudsonica: A test of the mechanisms that reduce ingestion rates

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 248, Issue , 2003, Pages 55-65

  Colin, Sean P ^a,b   Dam, Hans G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Copepod; Feeding deterrence; Ingestion rate; Physiological incapacitation; Resistance; Toxic dinoflagellate; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ANTIFEEDANT; DINOFLAGELLATE; GRAZING; INGESTION RATE; TOXIC ORGANISM;

GREAT BAY; NEW JERSEY; UNITED STATES;

ACARTIA; ACARTIA HUDSONICA; ALEXANDRIUM; ALEXANDRIUM FUNDYENSE; ALEXANDRIUM TAMARENSE; ALGAE; CALANOIDA; CASCO; COPEPODA; DINOPHYCEAE; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PRASINOPHYCEAE; TETRASELMIS;

EID: 0037455770     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps248055     Document Type: Article

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