Phytoplankton reduction in near-bottom water caused by filter-feeding Nereis diversicolor - Implications for worm growth and population grazing impact

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 141, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 47-54

  Riisgård, Hans Ulrik ^a   Poulsen, Liselotte ^a   Larsen, Poul S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Grazing impact; Ingestion layer; Specific growth rate; Vertical phytoplankton profiles

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ARGYROSOMUS REGIUS; NEANTHES DIVERSICOLOR; NEREIS; NEREIS DIVERSICOLOR; POLYCHAETA;

FILTER FEEDING; GROWTH; PHYTOPLANKTON; VERTICAL PROFILES;

EID: 0029664176     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps141047     Document Type: Article

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