Size matters: relationships between body size and body mass of common coastal, aquatic invertebrates in the Baltic Sea

Background Organism biomass is one of the most important variables in ecological studies, making biomass estimations one of the most common laboratory tasks. Biomass of small macroinvertebrates is usually estimated as dry mass or ash-free dry mass (hereafter ‘DM’ vs. ‘AFDM’) per sample; a laborious...

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Main Authors: Johan Eklöf, Åsa Austin, Ulf Bergström, Serena Donadi, Britas D.H.K. Eriksson, Joakim Hansen, Göran Sundblad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2017-01-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/2906.pdf