Variability in amino acid composition of alpine crustacean zooplankton and its relationship with nitrogen-15 fractionation

Journal of Plankton Research

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1583-1597

  Ventura, Marc ^a,b   Catalan, Jordi ^a  

^a CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

amino acid composition; food quality; homeostasis; nitrogen fractionation; stoichiometry

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; AMINO ACID; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CRUSTACEAN; HOMEOSTASIS; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NITROGEN; NUTRITIVE VALUE; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; ONTOGENY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PROTEIN; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; STABLE ISOTOPE; STOICHIOMETRY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALIA; CALANOIDA; CLADOCERA; COPEPODA; CRUSTACEA; CYCLOPOIDA; CYCLOPS (CRUSTACEAN); CYCLOPS ABYSSORUM; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA PULICARIA; DIAPTOMUS; PULICARIA;

EID: 77957974181     PISSN: 01427873     EISSN: 14643774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbq066     Document Type: Article

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