The escape behavior of marine copepods in response to a quantifiable fluid mechanical disturbance

Journal of Plankton Research

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1289-1304

  Fields, David M ^a,b   Yen, Jeanette ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCAPE BEHAVIOUR; HYDRODYNAMICS; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; ZOOPLANKTON;

ACARTIA TONSA; ANIMALIA; COPEPODA; EUCHAEETA RIMANA; LABIDOCERA; LABIDOCERA MADURAE; OITHONA; XIPHIAS;

EID: 1842366058     PISSN: 01427873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/19.9.1289     Document Type: Article

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