Flow-mediated feeding in the field: consequences for the performance and abundance of a sessile marine invertebrate

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 388, Issue , 2009, Pages 207-220

  Arkema, Katie K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Current speed; Membranipora serrilamella; Particle capture; Sessile; Specific growth rate; Suspension feeding; Unimodal feeding response

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BRYOZOAN; COASTAL ZONE; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FLOW PATTERN; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GROWTH RATE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; REEF; SESSILE SPECIES; SPATIAL VARIATION;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SANTA BARBARA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

BRYOZOA; INVERTEBRATA; MEMBRANIPORA SERRILAMELLA;

EID: 69849111707     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08140     Document Type: Article

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