Estimation of the proportion of metabolically active mass in the amphipod Gammarus fossarum

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1093-1099

  Simčič, Tatjana ^a   Brancelj, Anton ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Body size; Chitin; Gammarus fossarum; Metabolically active mass; Scaling

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CHITIN; ZOOPLANKTON;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMALIA; GADUS MORHUA; GAMMARUS; GAMMARUS FOSSARUM; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038685805     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.2003.01075.x     Document Type: Article

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