Copepod gut contents, ingestion rates, and feeding impacts in relation to their size structure in the southeastern Taiwan Strait

Zoological Studies

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 402-416

  Tseng, Li Chun ^a   Kumar, Ram ^b   Dahms, Hans Uwe ^a   Chen, Qing Chao ^c   Hwang, Jiang Shiou ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Copepod; Feeding; Gut contents; Taiwan Strait; Trophic ecology

Indexed keywords

COPEPODA;

EID: 70350313126     PISSN: 10215506     EISSN: 1810522X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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