Edge gradients provide evidence of ecological interactions in planktonic thin layers

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1382-1392

  Benoit Bird, Kelly J ^a   Cowles, Timothy J ^a   Wingard, Christopher E ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSUMER-RESOURCE INTERACTION; FISH; GRAZING; PHYTOPLANKTON; PREDATOR; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; TROPHIC INTERACTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

CALIFORNIA; MONTEREY BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67650812017     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2009.54.4.1382     Document Type: Article

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