Extreme food webs: Foraging strategies and diets of scavenging amphipods from the ocean's deepest 5 kilometers

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1685-1697

  Blankenship, Lesley E ^a   Levin, Lisa A ^a  

^a INTEGRATIVE OCEANOGRAPHY DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPOD; DIET; FOOD WEB; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HADAL ZONE; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; SCAVENGER; TRENCH;

KERMADEC TRENCH; PACIFIC OCEAN; TONGA TRENCH;

AMPHIPODA; EURYTHENES GRYLLUS; HIRONDELLEA DUBIA; LYSIANASSOIDEA; SCOPELOCHEIRUS SCHELLENBERGI; URISTES;

EID: 34547145642     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2007.52.4.1685     Document Type: Article

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