Copepods use chemical trails to find sinking marine snow aggregates

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 185-192

  Lombard, F ^a,b,c   Koski, M ^a   Kiorboe T ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PUMP; CHEMICAL CUE; CRUSTACEAN; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHEROMONE; SNOW; VELOCITY;

EID: 84875287576     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2013.58.1.0185     Document Type: Article

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