Measuring Invertebrate Predation in situ on Zooplankton Assemblages
- 1 April 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Transactions of the American Microscopical Society
- Vol. 95 (2) , 143-155
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3225057
Abstract
A new technique is described to determine in situ invertebrate predation on zooplankton assemblages. The method involves staining the prey animals with the fluorescent dye acridine orange and releasing them into a grazing chamber suspended in the lake. Predator-prey interactions can be quantified from the number of fluorescent prey and predators recovered. Predation is indicated if a suspected predator possesses a fluorescent gut tube.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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