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Results Regarding the Food of the Planktic Crustaceans Daphnia hyalina and Eudiaptomus gracilis
Author(s) -
Horn Wolfgang
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
internationale revue der gesamten hydrobiologie und hydrographie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.524
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1522-2632
pISSN - 0020-9309
DOI - 10.1002/iroh.19850700507
Subject(s) - biology , daphnia , crustacean , zooplankton , cladocera , zoology , ecology
The graph of maximum filtering and grazing rates versus particle size shows that Daphnia hyalina is a microfiltrator and Eudiaptomus gracilis is a macrofiltrator. In contrast to Eudiaptomus gracilis, Daphnia hyalina is also able to utilize larger bacteria (c. 1 μm 3 ) as a food source.