Seasonal and developmental variation in feeding by the copepod Calanus sinicus in the Yellow Sea
We investigated feeding by Calanus sinicus in the Yellow Sea over four seasons in 2019–2022 using the gut pigment method. Studying the feeding of copepods is important for understanding processes within food webs, but little is known about the feeding ecology of C. sinicus, a major consumer of prima...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2023-12-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Marine Science |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2023.1273734/full |