Vulnerability of carp larvae to copepod predation as a function of larval age and body length

Aquaculture

Volumn 338-341, Issue , 2012, Pages 274-283

  Kumar, Ram ^a,b   Souissi, Sami ^c,d,e   Hwang, Jiang Shiou ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

^d Laboratoire d Océanologie et de Géosciences   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Alternate prey; Aquaculture; Larviculture; Predation

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; BODY SIZE; CRUSTACEAN; CYPRINID; FISH CULTURE; HATCHERY; LABORATORY METHOD; LARVA; LARVICULTURE; MORTALITY; NICHE; PREDATION; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; REARING; SURVIVAL; VULNERABILITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ACANTHOCYCLOPS; BRACHIONUS CALYCIFLORUS; CATLA CATLA; CERIODAPHNIA CORNUTA; CILIOPHORA; CLADOCERA; COPEPODA; CYCLOPOIDA; CYPRINIDAE; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA SIMILOIDES; HEXAPODA; HEXARTHRA MIRA; LABEO ROHITA; LABIDOCERA; MESOCYCLOPS ASPERICORNIS; MESOCYCLOPS THERMOCYCLOPOIDES; PARAMECIUM CAUDATUM; PONTELLOPSIS; PROTISTA; ROTIFERA;

EID: 84863393935     PISSN: 00448486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2012.01.001     Document Type: Article

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