Reproduction rates under variable food conditions and starvation in Mnemiopsis leidyi: Significance for the invasion success of a ctenophore

Journal of Plankton Research

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1011-1018

  Jaspers, Cornelia ^a   Møller, Lene Friis ^b   Kiørboe, Thomas ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

ctenophore; egg production; hatching success; self fertilization

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ORGANISM; AUTOGAMY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; EGG PRODUCTION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HATCHING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PREY AVAILABILITY; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; STARVATION; WATER EXCHANGE;

EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; MNEMIOPSIS LEIDYI;

EID: 84942323785     PISSN: 01427873     EISSN: 14643774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbv017     Document Type: Article

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