Feeding rates and prey:Predator size ratios of the nauplii and adult females of the marine cyclopoid copepod oithona davisae

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2077-2088

  Saiz, Enric ^a   Griffell, Kaiene ^a   Calbet, Albert ^a   Isari, Stamatina ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPEPODA; CYCLOPOIDA; OITHONA DAVISAE;

EID: 84908377495     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2014.59.6.2077     Document Type: Article

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