All you can eat: the functional response of the cold-water coral Desmophyllum dianthus feeding on krill and copepods

The feeding behavior of the cosmopolitan cold-water coral (CWC) Desmophyllum dianthus (Cnidaria: Scleractinia) is still poorly known. Its usual deep distribution restricts direct observations, and manipulative experiments are so far limited to prey that do not occur in CWC natural habitat. During a...

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Main Authors: Juan Höfer, Humberto E. González, Jürgen Laudien, Gertraud M. Schmidt, Verena Häussermann, Claudio Richter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2018-11-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/5872.pdf