To bite, or not to bite? A quantitative comparison of foraging strategies among three brackish crustaceans feeding on leaf litters

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 110, Issue , 2012, Pages 125-133

  Mancinelli, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brackish macroinvertebrates; Computerized image analysis; Feeding behavior; Scraper; Shredder; Vascular plant litter

Indexed keywords

BRACKISH WATER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRUSTACEAN; EPIFAUNA; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GRASS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEAF LITTER; MACROINVERTEBRATE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REEDBED;

AMPHIPODA; CRUSTACEA; CYMODOCEA NODOSA; GAMMARUS; GAMMARUS AEQUICAUDA; IDOTEA; IDOTEA BALTICA; ISOPODA; LEKANESPHAERA; LEKANESPHAERA HOOKERI; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84865331289     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2012.04.002     Document Type: Article

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