Determination of food carbon assimilation in copepods

A method for measuring food carbon assimilation in the copepod Calanus finmarchicus was developed, using the diatom Ditylum brightwelli as food. The amount of particulate food carbon ingested was determined as the difference between CHN analyzer analyses for particulate food carbon of pre- and post-...

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Main Author: O'Connors, Harold Blane Jr
Other Authors: Small, Lawrence F.
Language:en_US
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1957/28889