Seasonal variation in abundance and feeding rates of the first stages of copepods in a temperate sea

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 352, Issue , 2007, Pages 161-175

  López, Eva ^a   Viesca, Leticia ^a   Anadón, Ricardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cantabrian Sea; Copepod nauplii; Gut fluorescence; Ingestion rates

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANNUAL CYCLE; CRUSTACEAN; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INGESTION RATE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF BISCAY;

COPEPODA;

EID: 38949086154     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07111     Document Type: Article

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