What do barnacle larvae feed on? Implications in biofouling ecology

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1241-1247

  Gaonkar, Chetan A ^a   Anil, Arga Chandrashekar ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

Author keywords

Balanus amphitrite (=Amphibalanus amphitrite); barnacle larvae; diatoms; dispersion; faecal pellets; phytoplankton; settlement and recruitment

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALGA; ALUMINUM; BIOFOULING; CHLOROPHYLL A; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRUSTACEAN; DIATOM; DINOFLAGELLATE; DISPERSION; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FECAL PELLET; FEEDING; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOOD ORGANISM; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; LARVA; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LARVAL SETTLEMENT; METAMORPHOSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

DONA PAULA BAY; GOA; INDIA;

ALGAE; AMPHIBALANUS; AMPHITRITE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BALANUS AMPHITRITE; CYPRIDIDAE; DINOPHYCEAE; THORACICA;

EID: 77958508776     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315409991238     Document Type: Article

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