Food and Feeding in Northern Krill (Meganyctiphanes norvegica Sars)

Advances in Marine Biology

Volumn 57, Issue C, 2010, Pages 127-171

  Schmidt, Katrin ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BOOK; ECOSYSTEM; EUPHAUSIACEA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; EUPHAUSIACEA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CALANUS; COPEPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUPHAUSIACEA; MEGANYCTIPHANES NORVEGICA; OITHONA;

EID: 77957911246     PISSN: 00652881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-381308-4.00005-4     Document Type: Book

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