Individual foraging behaviors and population distributions of a planktonic predator aggregating to phytoplankton thin layers

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 1 I, 2006, Pages 109-116

  Menden Deuer, Susanne ^a,b   Grünbaum, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GRAZING; MOVEMENT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ISOCHRYSIS GALBANA; OXYRRHIS MARINA; PROTISTA;

EID: 32944476053     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.1.0109     Document Type: Article

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