Low rates of predation on planktonic marine invertebrate larvae
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Size-specific predation on marine invertebrate larvae.
Predation on planktonic larval stages is frequently a major source of mortality for the offspring of benthic marine invertebrates. Mortality rate likely varies with larval size and developmental stage, but few experiments have measured how these factors affect predation rates. I used experimental reductions in egg size to test how variation in larval size affects the likelihood of predation dur...
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عنوان ژورنال: Marine Ecology Progress Series
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0171-8630,1616-1599
DOI: 10.3354/meps248125