Gelatinous plankton: Irregularities rule the world (sometimes)

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 356, Issue , 2008, Pages 299-310

  Boero, F ^a   Bouillon, J ^a   Gravili, C ^a   Miglietta, M P ^b   Parsons, T ^c   Piraino, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Benthic pelagic coupling; Cnidaria; Ctenophora; Cysts; Gelatinous plankton; Life cycle; Life history; Resource patchiness; Thaliacea; Trophic networks

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; BENTHIC-PELAGIC COUPLING; CYST; EXPLOITATION; FILTER FEEDER; FOOD WEB; INVERTEBRATE; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE HISTORY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PATCHINESS; PLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROTEIN; TROPHIC STRUCTURE; VERTEBRATE; ZOOPLANKTON;

CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; THALIACEA;

EID: 42249094339     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07368     Document Type: Article

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