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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PeerJ Inc.
2017-01-01
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