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Animals and food (leaves) are confined at a desired temperature in a feeding chamber in the upper portion of the water column of a collector system. Egested material collects in water at 0°C also eliminates coprophagy and physical damage to the pellets.
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Lautenschlager, K.P., Kaushik, N.K. & Robinson, J.B. A simple system for the Collection of Leaf-Derived Faecal Pellets of Aquatic Invertebrates. Hydrobiologia 64, 5–8 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00015448
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