Relative importance of inefficient feeding and consumer excretion to organic carbon flux from Daphnia

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1911-1923

  He, Xuejia ^a   Wang, Wen Xiong ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Daphnia; Dissolved organic carbon; Excretion regeneration; Inefficient feeding

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; CARBON FLUX; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; EXCRETION; FECES; FEEDING; FLEA; PHYTOPLANKTON; REGENERATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ALGAE; DAPHNIA;

EID: 33748751962     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2006.01631.x     Document Type: Article

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