Vulnerability of microcrustaceans to predation by the invasive filter-feeding mussel Limnoperna fortunei (Dunker)

Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 329-338

  Molina, Florencia Rojas ^a   de Paggi, Susana José ^a,b   Boltovskoy, Demetrio ^c,d,e  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE LIMNOLOGÍA CONICET UNL   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^d Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^e MUSEO ARGENTINO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

bivalve; cladocerans; copepods; filter feeding; Limnoperna fortunei; microcrustaceans; mussel

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; CLEARANCE RATE; CRUSTACEAN; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FILTER FEEDING; INGESTION RATE; INVASIVE SPECIES; MICROPLANKTON; PREDATION; VULNERABILITY;

PARANA RIVER;

BIVALVIA; COPEPODA; DREISSENA; DREISSENA POLYMORPHA; LIMNOPERNA FORTUNEI; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 84858957339     PISSN: 10236244     EISSN: 10290362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10236244.2011.639503     Document Type: Article

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