Zooplankton response to a phytoplankton bloom near South Georgia, Antarctica

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 144, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 195-210

  Atkinson, Angus ^a   Shreeve, Rachael S ^a   Pakhomov, Evgeny A ^a,b   Priddle, Julian ^a   Blight, Stephen P ^a   Ward, Peter ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Copepods; Diatom bloom; Diets; Feeding rates; Southern Ocean; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CALANOIDES ACUTUS; CALANUS PROPINQUUS; CILIOPHORA; COPEPODA; COSCINODISCOPHYCEAE; DINOPHYCEAE; DREPANOPUS FORCIPATUS; METRIDIA; OITHONA SIMILIS; PROTOZOA; PTEROPODA; RHINCALANUS GIGAS;

EID: 0030457337     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps144195     Document Type: Article

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