Gut content analyses of three dominant Antarctic copepod species during an induced phytoplankton bloom EIFEX (European iron fertilization experiment)

Marine Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 301-312

  Kruse, Svenja ^a   Jansen, Sandra ^a   Krägefsky, Sören ^a   Bathmann, Ulrich ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Copepods; Diet; Feeding; Food item quality; Iron fertilization; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; CRUSTACEAN; DIATOM; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

ACANTHAREA; ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CALANUS SIMILLIMUS; CHAETOCEROS; COPEPODA; COSCINODISCOPHYCEAE; FORAMINIFERA; FRAGILARIOPSIS KERGUELENSIS; PLEUROMAMMA ROBUSTA; PROTOZOA; RHINCALANUS GIGAS; TINTINNIDA;

EID: 68549123549     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: 14390485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.2009.00284.x     Document Type: Article

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