Prey-specific encounter rates and handling efficiencies as causes of prey selectivity in ambush-feeding hydromedusae

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1849-1858

  Hansson, Lars Johan ^a   Kiørboe, Thomas ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; JELLYFISH; PREY PREFERENCE; PREY SELECTION;

ACARTIA TONSA; COPEPODA; HYDROZOA; SARSIA TUBULOSA; SCYPHOZOA; THORACICA;

EID: 33746910588     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.4.1849     Document Type: Article

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