Determination of zooplankton grazing pressure and faecal pellet production in a frontal zone of the North Sea

Bulletin de la Societe Royale des Sciences de Liege

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 19-22

  Belkhiria, Sami ^a   Goffart, Anne ^a   Hecq, Jean Henri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Copepods; Ecohydrodynamics; Faecal pellets; Grazing; North Sea

Indexed keywords

EID: 5844255086     PISSN: 00379565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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