Experimental and modeling evidence of appendicularian-ciliate interactions

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 77-90

  Lombard, Fabien ^a   Eloire, Damien ^a   Gobet, Angelique ^a   Stemmann, Lars ^a   Dolan, John R ^a   Sciandra, Antoine ^a   Gorsky, Gabriel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CILIATE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FILTER; FOOD LIMITATION; FOOD SUPPLY; FOOD WEB; GROWTH RATE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INVERTEBRATE; LABORATORY METHOD; MUTUALISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; SURVIVAL;

APPENDICULARIA (CLASS); CILIOPHORA; OIKOPLEURA DIOICA; STROMBIDIUM; STROMBIDIUM SP.;

EID: 75749117849     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2010.55.1.0077     Document Type: Article

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