Summer dynamics of the coastal planktonic food web in the northern Baltic Sea

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 151, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 27-41

  Uitto, A ^a   Heiskanen, A S ^b   Lignell, R ^c   Autio, R ^a   Pajuniemi, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bacterial production; Grazing food chain; Microbial food web; Primary production; Sedimentation; Trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CILIATE; COASTAL ZONE; FOOD WEB; FOOD WEBS; GRAZING; NANOFLAGELLATE; PLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SUMMER;

BALTIC SEA;

EID: 0030618731     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps151027     Document Type: Article

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