Description: Food Quality and Food Choice in Freshwater Gastropods: Field and Laboratory Investigations on a Key Component of Littoral Food Webs by Patrick Fink Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description Freshwater gastropods form a key link in the food webs of lake littoral zones. They make benthic primary production available to invertebrate and vertebrate predators. However, their community biomass is strongly influenced by the nutritional quality of periphytic algae. In this study, several factors that potentially determine the nutritional quality of periphyton for gastropod grazers (and strategies of the snails to cope with food quality constraints) were investigated both in the field and under standardised conditions in laboratory growth experiments. As food quality is patchily distributed, it should be highly adaptive for gastropod herbivores to utilise chemical cues in order to detect patches of (high quality) food. In particular, volatile organic compounds released from benthic algae can be used by the snails as foraging kairomones that indicate the presence of a food patch. These adaptations probably contribute to the extreme success of freshwater gastropods in many lake and river littoral zones. Details ISBN 3832512039 ISBN-13 9783832512033 Title Food Quality and Food Choice in Freshwater Gastropods: Field and Laboratory Investigations on a Key Component of Littoral Food Webs Author Patrick Fink Format Paperback Year 2006 Pages 133 Publisher Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH GE_Item_ID:137232910; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9783832512033
Book Title: Food Quality and Food Choice in Freshwater Gastropods: Field and
Number of Pages: 133 Pages
Publication Name: Food quality and food choice in freshwater Gastropods : Field and laboratory investigations on a key component of littoral food Webs
Language: English
Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin
Publication Year: 2006
Subject: Life Sciences / Biology
Item Weight: 19.7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Patrick Fink
Item Length: 8.3 in
Subject Area: Science
Item Width: 5.7 in
Format: Trade Paperback
