Extension of methods for jellyfish and ctenophore trophic ecology to large-scale research

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 616, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-50

  Purcell, Jennifer E ^a  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Feeding; Global; Metabolism; Methods; Model; Review; Scaling

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BLOOMS (METAL); EARTH SCIENCES; ECOLOGY; METABOLISM; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

20TH CENTURIES; AND MODELS; AURELIA; CLEARANCE RATES; CURRENT TECHNIQUES; CYANEA CAPILLATA; FEEDING EXPERIMENTS; FEEDING RATES; GLOBAL; GLOBAL SCALES; IN-SITU; LOCAL SCALES; MEDUSAE; METABOLIC RATES; METHODS; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; PREDICTIVE EQUATIONS; PREDICTIVE MODELS; PREDICTIVE RELATIONSHIPS; PREY DENSITIES; RESPIRATION RATES; SCALING; SCYPHOMEDUSA; SIGNIFICANT FACTORS; SMALL CONTAINERS; STABLE ISOTOPES; TEMPORAL SCALES; TROPHIC ECOLOGIES; WET WEIGHTS; ZOO PLANKTONS; ZOOPLANKTON ECOLOGIES;

FEEDING;

FEEDING; JELLYFISH; METABOLISM; OCEANOGRAPHY; PREDATOR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATION; SATELLITE; ZOOPLANKTON;

AURELIA; CHRYSAORA QUINQUECIRRHA; COPEPODA; CTENOPHORA (COELENTERATES); CYANEA CAPILLATA; HYDROIDA; MNEMIOPSIS LEIDYI; SCYPHOMEDUSAE; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 57449113006     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-008-9585-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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