Antennule shape and body size of Bosmina: Key factors determining its vulnerability to predacious copepoda

Limnology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-34

  Sakamoto, Masaki ^a   Hanazato, Takayuki ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bosmina; Copepod predation; Morphological defense; Vulnerability to predation

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BODY SIZE; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOTYPE; PREDATION; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; VULNERABILITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

BOSMINA; BOSMINA FATALIS; BOSMINA LONGIROSTRIS; BOSMINIDAE; COPEPODA; CYCLOPOIDA; MESOCYCLOPS;

EID: 41549145184     PISSN: 14398621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10201-007-0231-3     Document Type: Article

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