Publication Date:
2021-07-06
Description:
Many sides of the biology of Polyphemus pediculus are adequately studied at the present time. Most complicated is the question of its feeding. Dissection does not give an idea of the composition of the food, since Polyphemus strongly grinds its food with its mandibles. For clarification of the composition of the food of Polyphemus pediculus, the authors carried out in July and August 1962 a series of experiments with the application of radio-carbon methods in order to judge the degree of utilization of one or other foods by the quantity of C14, accumulated in the body of the crustacean after feeding. Particular attention in these experiments was given to the question of the possibility of the utilization by polyphemus of plant food - bacteria, algae and detritus.
Description:
Translated from Russian into English
Keywords:
Biology
;
Ecology
;
Limnology
;
Freshwater crustaceans
;
Food composition
;
Feeding
;
Algae
;
Carbon 14
;
Bacteria
;
Detritus
;
Polyphemus pediculus
Repository Name:
AquaDocs
Type:
monograph
Format:
application/pdf
Format:
application/pdf
