Passive flow through an unstalked intertidal ascidian: Orientation and morphology enhance suspension feeding in Pyura stolonifera

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 207, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 217-224

  Knott, N A ^a,b   Davis, A R ^a   Buttemer, W A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILTER FEEDING; FOOD INTAKE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MORPHOLOGY; ORIENTATION; WATER FLOW;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NEW SOUTH WALES; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; PYURA; PYURA STOLONIFERA; PYURIDAE;

EID: 11144243346     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1543210     Document Type: Article

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