Succession of bacterivorous protists on laboratory-made marine snow

Journal of Plankton Research

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1429-1440

  Artolozaga, Itxaso ^a   Santamaría, Esther ^a   López, Almudena ^a   Ayo, Begoña ^a   Iriberri, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION; MARINE SNOW; PROTIST; PROTISTS; SUCCESSION;

ASPIDISCA; ASPIDISCA STEINI; BICOSOECA; BICOSOECIDA; BODO; BODO DESIGNIS; CILIOPHORA; EUPLOTES; EUPLOTES VANNUS; HYPOTRICHIA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PROTISTA; PSEUDOBODO; PSEUDOBODO TREMULANS; RHYNCHOMONAS NASUTA; SCUTICOCILIATIA; URONEMA MARINUM; VANNELLA;

EID: 0030694049     PISSN: 01427873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/19.10.1429     Document Type: Article

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