Benthic life in the pelagic: Aggregate encounter and degradation rates by pelagic harpacticoid copepods

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1254-1263

  Koski, Marja ^a   Kiørboe, Thomas ^a   Takahashi, Kazutaka ^b,c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

AMONARDIA; COPEPODA; HARPACTICOIDA; MICROSETELLA NORVEGICA;

EID: 22844443259     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2005.50.4.1254     Document Type: Article

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