Food quality affects secondary consumers even at low quantities: An experimental test with larval european lobster

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Schoo, Katherina L ^a   Aberle, Nicole ^a   Malzahn, Arne M ^a,b   Boersma, Maarten ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACARTIA TONSA; ALGA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPEPOD; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FOOD; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD QUANTITY; HOMARUS GAMMARUS; LARVA; LOBSTER; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; RHODOMONAS SALINA; STARVATION; ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; NEPHROPIDAE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACARTIA TONSA; ALGAE; COPEPODA; HOMARUS GAMMARUS; RHODOMONAS SALINA;

ANIMALS; FOOD CHAIN; LARVA; NEPHROPIDAE;

EID: 84858600288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033550     Document Type: Article

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