Structure and grazing of the microzooplankton communities of the Subtropical Convergence and a warm-core eddy in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 135, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 237-245

  Froneman, P W ^a   Perissinotto, R ^a,b  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Biological pump; Microzooplankton grazing; Southern Ocean; Subtropical Convergence

Indexed keywords

CILIOPHORA; OLIGOTRICHS; TINTINNIDAE;

EID: 0029835567     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps135237     Document Type: Article

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