Dead in the water: The fate of copepod carcasses in the York River estuary, Virginia

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1821-1834

  Elliott, David T ^a   Harris, Courtney K ^a   Tang, Kam W ^a   Zubkov, Mikhail V ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEAN; DECOMPOSITION; DRY MATTER; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INGESTION RATE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MORTALITY; PLANKTIVORE; TURBULENCE; WEIGHT;

UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA; YORK RIVER;

COPEPODA; MNEMIOPSIS LEIDYI;

EID: 77954029796     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2010.55.5.1821     Document Type: Article

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