Filter-Feeding in Marine Invertebrates

• Other Authors: Riisgård, Hans Ulrik (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Biology, life sciences; bioenergetic growth model; energy budget; filtration rate; respiration; F/R-ratio; filter-feeding; allometric scaling; sponge module; choanocyte density; specific filtration rate; filtration; exponential growth; power function growth; Mytilus edulis; pumping rate; ingestion rate; natural seston; blue mussel; demosponges; morphology; taxonomy; geographic distribution; holobiont; life history; hydrodynamics; coordinated behavior; model organism; weight-specific growth; pseudofeces
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Filter-feeding in marine invertebrates is a big and important research subject, which cannot be even approximately covered by the present six articles. But although these articles deal with a limited and rather random selection of both topics and filter-feeding species, they give an update of certai...