Fatty acid trophic markers and trophic links among seston, crustacean zooplankton and the siphonophore Nanomia cara in Georges Basin and Oceanographer Canyon (NW Atlantic)

Scientia Marina

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 403-416

  Rossi, Sergio ^a   Youngbluth, Marsh J ^b   Jacoby, Charles A ^c   Pagès, Francesc ^d   Garrofé, Xènia ^d  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fatty acids; Gulf of Maine; Siphonophora; Trophic relationships

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FATTY ACID; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; SESTON; TROPHIC CONDITIONS; TROPHIC INTERACTION; TROPHIC STATUS; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); GULF OF MAINE;

CALANUS; CALANUS FINMARCHICUS; CRUSTACEA; EUPHAUSIIDAE; MEGANYCTIPHANES NORVEGICA; NANOMIA CARA;

EID: 48749102705     PISSN: 02148358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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