The prevalence and implications of copepod behavioral responses to oceanographic gradients and biological patchiness

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 831-846

  Woodson, C Brock ^a   Webster, Donald R ^b   Weissburg, Marc J ^c   Yen, Jeannette ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACARTIA TONSA; CALANOIDA; COPEPODA; EURYTEMORA AFFINIS; TEMORA LONGICORNIS;

EID: 36448972377     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icm091     Document Type: Article

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