Ingestion Selectivity of Sedimentary Organic Matter by the Deposit-Feeder Nucula annulata (Bivalvia: Nuculidae)
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Inter-Research Science Center in Marine Ecology Progress Series
- Vol. 8 (3) , 279-282
- https://doi.org/10.3354/meps008279
Abstract
Methods are described that allow a quantitative estimation of selective ingestion of sedimentary organic matter by deposit-feeding animals. The estimation can be made independently of any information of possible modes of selection. Animals need not be starved for a feeding trial, as is usual in other electivity studies. The protobranch bivalve N. annulata, when offered silt-clay sediment in which it was living, ingested sedimentary organic matter non-selectively.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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