Predator-prey relationship between the cyclopoid copepod Diacyclops bicuspidatus and a free-living bacterivorous nematode

Nematology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 55-62

  Muschiol, Daniel ^a   Marković, Mirjana ^a   Threis, Ilka ^a   Traunspurger, Walter ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benthos; Food chain; Foraging behaviour; Functional response; Holling type; Invertebrate predators; Meiofauna prey; Panagrolaimus

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEAN; FOOD CHAIN; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LABORATORY METHOD; MEIOFAUNA; NEMATODE; NUTRITION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY SIZE;

COPEPODA; CYCLOPOIDA; DIACYCLOPS BICUSPIDATUS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; PANAGROLAIMUS; PANAGROLAIMUS SP.;

EID: 37849001094     PISSN: 13885545     EISSN: 15685411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156854108783360203     Document Type: Article

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