Emergence of Holling type III zooplankton functional response: Bringing together field evidence and mathematical modelling

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 265, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 45-54

  Morozov, Andrew Yu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Grazing control; Holling type III; Vertical plankton distribution; Zooplankton functional response

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; FOOD WEB; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; GRAZING; POPULATION MODELING; THEORETICAL STUDY; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ALGAL BLOOM; ALGAL GROWTH; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD WEB; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES HABITAT; VERTICAL POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; COPEPODA; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYTOPLANKTON; ZOOPLANKTON;

ALGAE;

EID: 77953684545     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.04.016     Document Type: Article

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