Microzooplankton grazing and protozooplankton community structure in the South Atlantic and in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 703-721

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

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CILIOPHORA; TINTINNIDAE;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GRAZING; SIZE CLASS; SIZE CLASSES; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC, (SOUTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN, ATLANTIC SECTOR;

EID: 0030498620     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0967-0637(96)00010-6     Document Type: Article

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