When season does not matter: Summer and winter trophic ecology of Arctic amphipods

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 684, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 189-214

  Legeżyńska, Joanna ^a   Kędra, Monika ^a   Walkusz, Wojciech ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

^b FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amphipoda; Arctic; Fatty acids; Seasonality; Stable isotopes; Trophic ecology

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPOD; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BENTHOS; CARNIVORE; DEPOSIT FEEDING; FATTY ACID; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HERBIVORE; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PHYTODETRITUS; POLAR REGION; PREDATION; SCAVENGER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; STABLE ISOTOPE; SUMMER; TROPHIC STRUCTURE; WATER COLUMN; WINTER;

AMPHIPODA; CRUSTACEA;

EID: 84856765083     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0982-z     Document Type: Article

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