Feeding ecology of shallow water meiofauna: Insights from a stable isotope tracer experiment in Potter Cove, King George Island, Antarctica

Polar Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1629-1640

  Pasotti, Francesca ^a   de Troch, Marleen ^a   Raes, Maarten ^a   Vanreusel, Ann ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Feeding ecology; Meiobenthos; Stable isotopes; West Antarctic Peninsula

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BENTHIC-PELAGIC COUPLING; CARBON ISOTOPE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CRUSTACEAN; DIATOM; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FOOD WEB; MEIOFAUNA; NEMATODE; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SHALLOW WATER; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRACER; TROPHIC CONDITIONS; WATER COLUMN;

ANTARCTICA; KING GEORGE ISLAND; POTTER COVE; SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS;

ANIMALIA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COPEPODA; CUMACEA; DAPTONEMA; METAZOA; NEMATODA; THALASSIOSIRA WEISSFLOGII;

EID: 84867677559     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-012-1203-6     Document Type: Article

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