Foraging and impacts by benthic fish on the intertidal amphipod Corophium volutator

Journal of Crustacean Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 558-564

  McCurdy, Dean G ^a   Forbes, Mark R ^b   Logan, Sean P ^a   Lancaster, Diana ^a   Mautner, Selma I ^b  

^a ALBION COLLEGE   (United States)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPODA; COROPHIUM VOLUTATOR; PLEURONECTOIDEI;

EID: 28444459250     PISSN: 02780372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1651/C-2539.1     Document Type: Article

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