THE ORGANIZATION OF ZOOPLANKTON EPIBIONT COMMUNITIES

被引:96
作者
THRELKELD, ST
CHIAVELLI, DA
WILLEY, RL
机构
[1] UNIV ILLINOIS,DEPT BIOL SCI,CHICAGO,IL 60680
[2] ROCKY MT BIOL LABS,CRESTED BUTTE,CO 81224
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10.1016/0169-5347(93)90238-K
中图分类号
Q14 [生态学(生物生态学)];
学科分类号
071012 ; 0713 ;
摘要
Recent findings suggest that a diverse set of interactions exists between crustacean zooplankton and the algae, protozoans and metazoans that live attached to them. The frequent molting of the crustacean exoskeleton keeps these epibiont populations in a state of constant renewal and makes this epibiont community an ideal experimental system for examining the organization of communities whose populations are distributed among ephemeral habitat patches.
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页码:317 / 321
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