Eating your competitor: Functional triangle between turbulence, copepod escape behavior and predation from mussels

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 376, Issue , 2009, Pages 143-151

  Jonsson, Anders ^a   Nielsen, Torkel Gissel ^a   Hrubenja, Ivan ^a   Maar, Marie ^a   Petersen, Jens Kjerulf ^a  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Benthic pelagic coupling; Copepod escape response; Copepod mortality; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BENTHIC-PELAGIC COUPLING; BIVALVE; CRUSTACEAN; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FILTER FEEDER; MORTALITY; PREDATION; PREY CAPTURE; TURBULENCE;

ACARTIA TONSA; CALANOIDA; COPEPODA; MYTILUS EDULIS;

EID: 62149099929     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07817     Document Type: Article

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